Comments on: What happens when you wait until the last minute http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2007/04/18/what-happens-when-you-wait-until-the-last-minute/ top secret/secure computing information Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:30:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: LonerVamp http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2007/04/18/what-happens-when-you-wait-until-the-last-minute/#comment-391 LonerVamp Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:49:38 +0000 http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2007/04/18/what-happens-when-you-wait-until-the-last-minute/#comment-391 I see this happen a lot on the job. People will have a minor issue with a file on a server or their system and just put it off. Then days later they realize they have a presentation in an hour and fire off hurried requests to IT for help help help! I hate that deeply, and I always think back to a favorite line I try not to use as much anymore: "Your lack of planning is not my emergency." Having also been in web delivery companies, I've also seen clients doing e-learning where the students wait until the last day to take required courses. Then when things don't work (maybe students needed Flash players installed on their work machines) frustration builds. Or when that huge influx starts causing alarms in the server room to which we later wonder, "why doesn't anyone plan for these blitzes in usage? where is the capacity planning? we'll do it if someone just gives us the numbers....or thinks to get the numbers in the first place..." On and on and on... I see this happen a lot on the job. People will have a minor issue with a file on a server or their system and just put it off. Then days later they realize they have a presentation in an hour and fire off hurried requests to IT for help help help! I hate that deeply, and I always think back to a favorite line I try not to use as much anymore: “Your lack of planning is not my emergency.”

Having also been in web delivery companies, I’ve also seen clients doing e-learning where the students wait until the last day to take required courses. Then when things don’t work (maybe students needed Flash players installed on their work machines) frustration builds. Or when that huge influx starts causing alarms in the server room to which we later wonder, “why doesn’t anyone plan for these blitzes in usage? where is the capacity planning? we’ll do it if someone just gives us the numbers….or thinks to get the numbers in the first place…”

On and on and on…

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