Double work from my manager and onsite coordinator

So, I was assigned annoying opportunity with the same old irritating onsite team, and to add fuel to apathy, my manager was assigned to support me for its completion. I was expecting anyone else other than my manager for supporting this request because of two reasons, one is that he would suggest the most irrelevant work and the second worrying part is that both onsite coordinator and my manager have ego issues and would often clash on simple inputs. So, on the first day, the opportunity went smoothly with the onsite team suggesting some slides for modifications and some coordination with other teams. At the outset, it seemed simple and straightforward work and I acknowledged the onsite team that it would get completed by tomorrow. However, all these were completely ruined by the manager on the very next day and my manager started to share new suggestions that were completely irrelevant from client requirements. With these new suggestions from my manager, I got two tasks on my list - one is to complete the tasks assigned by the onsite coordinator and the other task is to complete the work suggested by the manager. To know how I managed the workload, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”

New roadmap and plan shared by Onsite team

Post previous day early morning discussions with the onsite team, myself and the delivery lead was busy for the entire day addressing multiple review comments shared and in the meantime, we were also connecting with different teams to get their suggestions and approaches. After completing all the task list shared by the onsite team, I have shared the updated version to them for their review and updates. We were hopeful that the onsite team would make some changes to the document as suggested by the leadership team and we would have minimal work to be completed from offshore. However, we joined the next days call and within few minutes the onsite team was notifying that there was change in plan from the client and we would have to revamp our entire solution and approach. We were shell shocked and had no other option but to listen to those discussions and finally before end of the call, I notified to the onsite that we would work on revised plan shared today and post these changes, if there are any further updates to be made the onsite team had to take ownership and complete it further. The onsite team was also acknowledging the fact that there were multiple suggestions shared by client and they were completely fine in taking ownership of the document. As usual it went other way around and to know more, please feel free to check out the posts listed in “G R Team Sites”

Got stuck into irritating work again with old people

After detailing my manager about the interactive work from my previous work, I convinced my manager that I can support for time being and would revert to the new service request once it gets active. Now, I have conveyed the same to the delivery team that I should not be supporting iterative requests from previous work, however since we have a good rapport, I have convinced my manager to give nod for further support. Agent hearing all these conversations and acknowledging my continuous effort, the delivery person looped me into original mail. Only after getting into the main thread I understood the extent of bandwidth required from my end to close this service request. I was shocked to see that it may require the entire day to complete a part of it and may need focus for the next two days. I got completely furious and now I have no other option but to support this request. For continuous two days, I was completely roasted with back to back calls and iterative changes to the document. With all my patience, I was able to close the document in time and while closing, I conveyed to that delivery lead that going forward I might not be able to support such ad-hoc requests. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

Oscillation about the nature of work

So, I had to work with the same onsite team with whom I had worked earlier and the same offshore delivery lead with whom I had issues about his nature of the work. I had ownership of setting up a call between both onsite and offshore teams, and the call started with all required introduction about the team and service request details. After completion of the call, gathering all required information for my work, I was bit relieved as I had most of the standard slides with me and only a few slides had to be recreated with the information shared. Now, I had oscillation about the nature of the work, whether it would be simple or would it get complicated each day with new requirements shared by the client and onsite team. Till next day’s call, all I had to do was gather some slides from the repository and keep empty slides for the onsite team to fill in. However, as usual, whatever expectation I had was changed in upcoming calls, to know more check out “G R Team sites”