Classic. I've been asked to go to an audit committee with the exectuve sponsor to justify the rather expensive internal development project I'm now in charge of which had already failed twice last year before it was passed to me.
The committee want to know the reasons for the project. What improvements it will make? What manual processes it replaces? What are the cost savings? What is the ROI? Why is it taking so long?
Before the project started I recommended buying in another product that did everything plus more than we wanted. It was half the price & I recommended that I thought the present project was unachieveable on the platform they wanted and they really needed a replacement. I was told that, that was out of the question & the entire team was instructed to go ahead as they'd already tried twice and spent a lot of money.
I'm now expected to go and justify it? What should I say?
The committee want to know the reasons for the project. What improvements it will make? What manual processes it replaces? What are the cost savings? What is the ROI? Why is it taking so long?
Before the project started I recommended buying in another product that did everything plus more than we wanted. It was half the price & I recommended that I thought the present project was unachieveable on the platform they wanted and they really needed a replacement. I was told that, that was out of the question & the entire team was instructed to go ahead as they'd already tried twice and spent a lot of money.
I'm now expected to go and justify it? What should I say?
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