Day 335 - Reprioritization

The project sponsor is not very comfortable with the current dead line compliance, so management has reprioritized the migration of the business areas.
This happened because management believes that there is need for a greater focus on some business areas where it comes to the data migration.
In practice, this means that credit insurance has been defined as non-priority data to be migrated.

I'm actively involved in this business area and my opinion is that this is actually a mistake.
Credit insurance is equivalent with all other business areas when it comes to mapping and errors, and the other business areas are not "on hold" because of the migration.
The reason the project sponsor is afraid is because the mapping team cannot solve the problems faster or there are dependencies from other players and the testing team is no longer working daily.

There are several management mistakes here. Testing should be a priority now, but the tests have been reduced and the testing team, which was performing ad-hoc tests 4 hours per day, is only doing up to 16 hours of testing per week. Some tests should have been automated by now, but there is not even a plan to do so, so testing will continue to be ad-hoc.
Management should focus on forcing third party players to comply with their tasks and dates instead of reducing the scope of data being migrated. As an example, we are waiting for some data files for at least 6 weeks, but the third party responsible for it doesn't actually care. They've sent a couple of files last week, to shut us up, and they came all wrong...