Wednesday, 12 January 2011

My life as a gardener

Life working in bank is a little like being a professional gardener.

Each ITPM(IT project manager) in the bank is given a small set of systems that they are responsible for. This is smallish and rectangular similar to a back garden of a terrace house. Colleagues that sit next to them are similar to next door neighbors.

Rules for lawn owners
  • Do not peer over the fence and start commenting on someone elses back garden and state of their lawn.
  • Do not start mowing someone elses lawn - you will either end up becomming responsible for it forever or upset the owner.
  • Be careful touching anything that represents an interface between your system and the neighboring system - breaking an api or feed - will result in your being blamed for an outage
  • Focus on creating a clean lawn with nice straight stripes - wax on, wax off
Rules for gardeners
  • Do not touch the lawn mover when it is being used - wait till after hours before touching anything. If you do not, you risk loosing a finger.
  • If there is a lot of work to be done, schedule it over a weekend
  • Be careful of anything that is offered to you - its probably a either a rosebush or a set of clippers - you may end up loosing a finger
  • As a professional gardener you may work across different owners lawns - in order to implement a drainage system - but be careful working across streets as these are controlled by different managers

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