I’m supporting a $30B companies ERP migration to S4 as a Client Partner providing project support and this resonates. Two years in, the program is so f’ed, morale is so low, the project plan and execution is so terrible, it’s inconceivable how a company can exist with so much pervasive dysfunction.
Go live is May. No chance that will happen. So many defects they can’t keep track. No business processing mapping or desktop procedures beyond L1. No data mapping. No requirements were ever submitted. Still processing change requests in UAT. Controls are laughable and do not meet PCAOBs criteria for completeness and accuracy. Still missing and adding reports. And a dozen other concurrent technology implementations happening in parallel with interdependent integrations that depend on this go-live, with the legacy platforms discontinuing by end of 2023 that will leave the business incapable of performing critical business processes.
None of my consultants want to be on the project. They think it’s professional suicide to be apart of a train headed off the cliff. I am still in disbelief and am hoping that somehow I will gain a unique wisdom by sticking it out and watching them pull this off. Or it will be a spectacular apocalyptic disaster that will make for a great story.
Go live is May. No chance that will happen. So many defects they can’t keep track. No business processing mapping or desktop procedures beyond L1. No data mapping. No requirements were ever submitted. Still processing change requests in UAT. Controls are laughable and do not meet PCAOBs criteria for completeness and accuracy. Still missing and adding reports. And a dozen other concurrent technology implementations happening in parallel with interdependent integrations that depend on this go-live, with the legacy platforms discontinuing by end of 2023 that will leave the business incapable of performing critical business processes.
None of my consultants want to be on the project. They think it’s professional suicide to be apart of a train headed off the cliff. I am still in disbelief and am hoping that somehow I will gain a unique wisdom by sticking it out and watching them pull this off. Or it will be a spectacular apocalyptic disaster that will make for a great story.