Got a big project? Make a plan and work the plan.
It has been a while since I wrote last time. 2017 is flying off fast. My move to Dominion Dealer Solutions has been a wonderful journey. I have been lucky to be leading a team of veterans and working with few leaders in the automotive industry. They keep teaching me a thing or two every day. With all things coming to my On-boarding and Deployment Services team, some days I am drinking from a fire hose. My most recent project involves Dominion's swapping out an existing partner data feed from one technology stack to another. Data feed is receiving 100's of files every day from the external partner and pushing their contents to multiple internal targets in different formats. Current feed and process works. With upcoming retirement of that feed the partner, we needed to upgrade. Sounds easy, right? Well, let's just say some things went right, some went wrong and some went arguably in-between. In the end, we all are learning a few things as we are nearing the project...