Tales from the War Room

April 29, 2009

With out 3rd major software release due in 40 days success is really reliant on some pretty effective collaboration between the multiple moving parts that need to come together on the day like one big well-oiled machine. That’s why I’m so glad that we setup our ‘War Room’ meeting. Each morning at 9am 20 indivduals descend on Meeting Room One from their various teams and take stock of progress over the previous 24hrs.

From the top we have : the Delivery Manager, ultimately responsible for the successful implementation of the release into Production; the Project Manager, reponsible for coordinating the campaign and keeping us all revved up; the Test Director and test team leads, responsible for executing 500 test cases with 100% success rates through System Test, Joint System Test  and Joint Acceptance Testing; the Trading System BA, responsible for design and development of the BlackRock Trading Platform component; the Data Management System team lead, responsible for the 40+ integration components they feed data throughout the solution; the Enterprise Services team lead, responsible for scheduling of data feeds; the Environments team lead, reponsible for servers, hardware and dealing with the spate of City-wide power-cuts we’ve had recently!!! Finally there’s the ‘Stats Guy’, responsible for compiling an impressive array of graphs and statistics that boil down the infite number of variables that all the other members generate during any given day into something that can meaningfully be discussed in under 45 minutes. Read more

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