I Need Help!

So, today is the last day of our trial test project for a new "breed" of mobile phone. The report we have to produce supports an absolutely enormous sales bid which as a salesman on commission is very dear to my heart.

So far I've written pretty much all the bid documentation and I was kind of hoping that with a bunch of highly skilled Technical bods working on the testing angle my work would be limited to writing the high level overview (all done!) and reviewing the findings.

Am I too naive? Is this too much to ask? Could, just once, other people do what they said they would in a way which makes sense to third parties who are not software engineers (what the client asked for months ago)???

Of course it is.

Does everybody else have this problem? Just for once I'd like to work in an Environment like Star Trek: TNG where all problems can be resolved in hours and everything you ask for arrives immediately, including the impossible.

At this stage there is a fighting chance that not only will it bugger up our friend's visiting over the weekend but I may also miss the Rugby tomorrow, and that will not do.

Herding Cats...

In addition to all the other things for today I'm also getting ready to jet off to a trade show next week. 3GSM World Congress

It's the big one for the GSM industry and is held in the South of France, which isn't actually all that bad. It's the one occasion when you can actually get all the people you need to meet with and make decisions in one place and get things moving. The problem with this is setting up meetings with multiple company managers.

I've spent part of the afternoon liasing with my CEO's PA and a counterpart of mine in one of our prospective clients who has been liasing with his VP's PA in the US, to find a time which allows the Snr VP to be at our meeting.

With me? Thought not, I'm barely keeping up myself.

Like all things like this, even though everybody flies this weekend, we're still fixing stuff at 5pm on a Friday afternoon.

What fun!