Comments on: The Colonel http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/testing/the-colonel/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Michael Orton http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/testing/the-colonel/comment-page-1/#comment-28861 Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:54:56 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=7474#comment-28861 I’m going to bookmark that site. It’s nice to hear about other projects being as absurd as ones I have been on.

Right now the application I support is “functionally stabilised” pending outsourcing.
The out-sourcing project plan started with four phases of UAT then there was a sign-off milestone followed by a specification phase. I did query this with my manager and she agreed it was unorthodox, but it wasn’t her plan and there was nothing she could do about it.

A few weeks ago the cutover date slipped from Feb 2014 to Nov 2014.

Meanwhile the staff who use the current system have had their headcount reduced and the manager seconded to the outsourcing project. Fortunately the application has very few bugs left, but external changes still happen. There isn’t any user time left for UAT…

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