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.