The Conversion is OVER

I've been pretty slack on blog posts lately. Mostly, I've just been too worn out to put any interesting thoughts together. But I'm back so here goes!

Conversion/upgrade weekend went really well! It was a long, hard weekend, but the problems we encountered were pretty minor and fixed in a day or two. One of the hardest parts of the conversion week was waiting to see what was going to happen. Ideally, everything goes really smoothly... but there is always the "what if."

I also dealt with a pretty unsupportive team. My core project team of about 4 people were tremendous! But this project touched about 700 people, so it was frustrating to see how uninvolved many of the "key" players were. I guess they figured I'd handle everything, and that put an incredible amount of pressure on me. I think that's an inherent flaw in project managers that they get assigned "everything." But it's not really supposed to be that way. One of my project members said, "Wow. Everyone seems pretty calm. I expected people to be more anxious..." It's because people would just turn and point the finger at me if anything came up. YUCK.

I truly do need to look at other job options. But for now, this is what I have and I'll do my best. I am also going to work harder in 2010 to set better boundaries with my job. We'll see how that goes!

I'll post a more fun post about Christmas trees, advent wreaths, and parties later this week. Come back and see me!