Day 3 after Go live day

06 October 2010

This past weekend has been hectic. Everyone pitched in and it was fantastic to see the team working as one…. facilities with IT; IT with production. Excellent!

We shut down Pacific Magazines on Friday morning and started the move process. The movers were in there early and things started getting underway. In the mean time, the IT boys were working hard to make sure that they were ready when the equipment was shifted over to APN premises.

A lot of people worked right through the weekend to ensure that come Monday, things would be ready to go.

I walked in on Monday with an expectation that a lot of things would go wrong. Probably sounds pessimistic but just the scale of the move and the time that we had to get it done wasn’t filling me with a lot of confidence. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that as of home time on Monday, we had a few teething issues but nothing major.
The new staff were in, looking around at the new environment. The NZM staff were probably as curious as them and it was surreal watching the interaction.

Having said that, Things overall were running smoothly! It was an amazing feeling.

There are still a few things here and there that need to be tidied up but I am happy with how this has come about.

Now that this project comes to an end, I can start looking at the next one that is coming up in Brisbane. More on that in the coming days