Day 413 - Restart

Today there was a migration meeting between the migration team, one management team responsible and I. It seems the migration will be performed in one shot and October is still the official date. But the management team is ready to take a four week delay, which means the migration would happen in November 1st.

This dates have been largely refuted by the migration team for several reasons. The most important of all is that they do not believe that the GIS implementation will be ready on time form compliance with these dates. This disbelieve has resulted in a very interesting discussion between management and the migration team.
The migration team is tired, the project has now an overall of two working years where these people have a work overload, they have to perform all their usual tasks plus they have to develop the migration. The worst problem came from the fact that historically the GIS implementation has failed to deliver the implementation of the defined requirements on time. Plus, there is still an huge amount of work to be done in this area, so the migration team is more than skeptical, they actually do not believe on these dates.
Worst, they are mad about the fact that the management team is being permissive with the GIS development delays and the features are not fully implementing to the define requirements.
After some pressure by the migration team, the management team admitted that they believe on these dates but do not put aside the possibility of another postpone.

On the top of all that, I've pointed out that there's still a considerable amount of work to be done regarding the tests and quality assurance. We already have identified counting checks and summary checks, but the identification of business rules validation is still work to be done.
Once the validations have been identified, they must be development on critical points: at data extraction, at data loading into the staging area, at data extraction from the staging area, and at data loading into GIS.

Nevertheless, the entire team has agreed to make another extra effort in order to try to comply with the current defined date. After a four week stop, the project restart is planed for tomorrow.