Victory Dance!

Last week, a year-end Sarbanes-Oxley compliance evidence request landed in my lap. The data required extended from November 15 to 2 PM today so I couldn't do much of it in advance; worse, I had to send nastygrams to a number of people informing them they couldn't go on vacation or accept early dismissal on the due date as they had data to contribute.

The original audit evidence request insisted we needed to include information up to and including 2 PM this afternoon. The auditors, however, have suddenly figured out that this deadline would mean they couldn't get the data from their points-of-contact (like me) until perhaps 5 PM, which means the auditors themselves would have to work Friday night and possibly Saturday to examine the data. Suddenly, the 2 PM start line vanished from the latest version of the audit request... Go figure. :-)

I'm delighted to report that all 54 MB of data required from my UNIX Engineering team is assembled. One of our managers is doing a quick review currently but I'm otherwise ready to attach the zip file to the Remedy ticket and click the magic "submit" button. Yay!

If I'm still feeling generous this afternoon, the first round of drinks at happy hour will be on me.

Victory Dance!

Last week, a year-end Sarbanes-Oxley compliance evidence request landed in my lap. The data required extended from November 15 to 2 PM today so I couldn't do much of it in advance; worse, I had to send nastygrams to a number of people informing them they couldn't go on vacation or accept early dismissal on the due date as they had data to contribute.

The original audit evidence request insisted we needed to include information up to and including 2 PM this afternoon. The auditors, however, have suddenly figured out that this deadline would mean they couldn't get the data from their points-of-contact (like me) until perhaps 5 PM, which means the auditors themselves would have to work Friday night and possibly Saturday to examine the data. Suddenly, the 2 PM start line vanished from the latest version of the audit request... Go figure. :-)

I'm delighted to report that all 54 MB of data required from my UNIX Engineering team is assembled. One of our managers is doing a quick review currently but I'm otherwise ready to attach the zip file to the Remedy ticket and click the magic "submit" button. Yay!

If I'm still feeling generous this afternoon, the first round of drinks at happy hour will be on me.