Day 472 - Bad, Bad News.

We've got the data ready for loading, as requested by management, for this weekend test.
When I went to talk with management, I was surprised to know that probably the data will not be loaded because a new GIS version was going to be installed. And it was not only me that was surprised, management didn't new this was going to happen!

Definitely management is unable to manage this project, planed things do not happen when they should and unplanned things with high impact happen without management acknowledgment.

Because of this new GIS version installation this means we have been working the last two days for nothing and the testing team will have to perform the same old ad hoc tests again.

This was also the day that the administration received the bad news. We, the data migration team, have officially stated that the immaturity of GIS, the current state of mapping rules, and the nonexistence of automated tests have made the first simulation, still scheduled for the last weekend of this month, impractical.
We also officially stated that this has a direct impact on the overall project and a new plan is now required because the current one will not happen.