Firing David Lightman: Page 5 of 7

I never had the nerve to tell my supervisors that I wasn???t ???slow??? ... I was just very cautious and thorough in what I was doing.

Where I worked other analysts were responsible for getting all the requirements and putting together a Systems Impact Analysis Packet (what other systems or programs were going to be impacted by the requested changes or additions).

Because I wasn???t part of this team, I would ALWAYS thoroughly review this packet. Usually verifying or redoing research to ensure all ???holes??? had been discovered. In a lot of cases I would find more affected programs or processes than what were shown in the original packet. I would present my findings back to the originating group and in a lot of cases would be told to ???not worry about it. Everything would be all right???. Just do my job.

Well, I basically would ???ignore??? that kind of response (maybe its from 20+ years of doing this job) and would work from ???my??? list of needed modifications. Doing those things found in the original analysis first, so as to look as if I was following the original course of action. But in reality fixing EVERYTHING that was found.

It would take a little longer than planned to do all this. But when you looked at the numbers, I had better than a 90% success rate on ALL new first time programs or processes that were installed to the production environment. On those projects just requiring simple modification or small process changes it was around 97%. Most of the ???young guns??? in the shop didn???t have better than a 50-60% rate in either case.