What a journey this has been!

It is always nice to have some challenges thrown at after all it brings huge deal of happiness when the hard work produces good results. There is no doubt in my mind about my abilities and every challenge has been handled to the best of my abilities and end results have always been good if not best. Pushing myself every day constantly for 4 long months has taken a toll out of me and I think is not any abnormal. I mentioned in my previous post that I signed up for something that I did not fully assess then and when you do a mistake like that there are surprises every now and then. I think I needed this kind of an experience sometime early in my career and this definitely happened at a right time.

I am recharging batteries now to do my best to deliver what is expected of the team. This whole experience got me the much needed visibility in the organization, which is definitely a good thing. This is a model project for reporting and I have been part of this in its toughest of times, which makes the whole experience an experience that can never be forgotten. My Secretariat experience and this experience are similar in lot of respects; SmartGov was awarded SILVER award for the year 2003 by WARIA institute and IBM called SmartGov the biggest ever implementation on Lotus Notes platform and this time it is Oracle's turn to call (not official) the current implementation the biggest ever. I am really proud to have been contributed for the success of these two implementations. The other projects between SmartGov and the current assignment have been successful too but given the size, SmartGov and iQ stand way top. In both the assignments, I have gathered a lot of knowledge in and around the project both technically and functionally and at the same time built so much dependency around me, which makes it difficult to leave this behind and move on.

When you are associated with a project for such a long time, dependencies cannot be avoided. I personally think this is time to move on to something new for a big Customer but given all the dependencies, my personal aspirations are not important to anybody except me. I am sure it will be in able hands to take it forward from here and that helps me move on from here! I wish myself GOOD LUCK and stop right here!