Day 521 - Re-Plan

Today we have re-planned.
The new dead-line will be April 2nd.
This leaves a lot of time to develop and test things.

Unfortunately management is, in my opinion, doing a terrible mistake when it comes to testing. I've personally helped in the draft test document, where around 100 tests that covered the technical part of the data migration, things such as control counts and sums. I've officially stated, more than once, that the test document should be expanded with the business tests, which should be around the 100 test also. In short, the testing document should cover around 200 tests, minimum.
My professional opinion on this has been ignored, and management identified only 27 tests to be implemented. This is, obviously, insufficient. Only 13.5% of the tests that should be performed will not guarantee the data migration quality.
This is clearly a high risk, but management has been so under pressure due to the time delays that it is making the most old, common and newbie mistake of them all: cutting on quality.

This is entirely a client problem, since its business will have to live with the data as it has been migrated. Everybody knows how bad, dirty and erroneous data impacts a business, but management seems to be ignoring this.

It looks like time is not the only issue with this project. It seems that cost has slip 50% already. No wonder administration is now taking a closer look and paying extra attention to this project.

Day 517 - Back from Vacations

We've just came back from our vacations and we've just found out that things have taken a twist.
The GIS is still not ready, instead of speeding up it actually delayed, thus it should be ready by the end of September.
Also, as I though, administration gave management one last chance to make it. It looks that this time there will be watch points, where management will decide to continue, or cancel the project, depending on its status.

We already have a working plan for this week, which kind of makes it serious when management says this time is for real.

Day 486 - First Simulation is No-Go

The first simulation will not happen this weekend.
As predicted, things must be re-planned since the dead lines will be impossible to accomplish mainly because the GIS software is not ready.
I've just discovered that the claims area is still under development and should be ready somewhere around mid August.

The re-plan will be a though decision for the administration, since management will have to explain very well why a new re-plan is required.
I have the idea that management has one last shot on getting this project done. I believe administration will allow this, last, re-plan, and that it will be the last one.

The data migration team will now go on vacation for the entire month of August.
We expect things to be better when we get back.

Day 482 - Really Bad News

The tests over the weekend when somewhat OK, but the first simulation of the data migration is compromised.
Things are still pretty unstable and there isn't a single test for validation defined. The first simulation will receive a no-go decision from me, and probably from management to, which means a re-plan will most probably occur.

Day 479 - Another Data Set for Weekend Tests

We have set up a new data set for the weekend tests, but things are so delayed that the minimum conditions for the first simulation to happen.
In particular, there isn't a single test defined to validate the data migration.