Tom has to tell his manager, Diane, about the status of the IT integration project. Read the conversation and watch the video. Which taskis behind schedule?
Diane:
So, Tom, are you saying that John and Karen aren’t happy about the project’s progress?
Tom:
Yes. They say we’re tooslow.
Diane:
Let’s look at the project plan then.
Tom:
OK. So, here we can see all the main IT topics: integration of the human resources systems, the integration of accounting and bookkeeping and the integration of salesdata.
Diane:
Can you show me the project status?
Tom:
Well, the next diagram shows the detailed schedule for all the HR systems: payroll, social security, performance review, training records. All integrated into the APU systems.
Diane:
Great! Have you started the training programme for the HR people on the new system yet?
Tom:
Oh, we’ve finished that already. We did that last month.
Diane:
Good. So when will you finish everything else?
Tom:
Well,moving on to the integration of our accounting systems, I’m afraid that’s late. We haven’t transferred all the data to APU yet.
Diane:
Oh. Can you explain why not?
Tom:
APU collects its information in a different way to us . That’s one problem.
Diane:
But I don’t understand why that’s a problem. It’s the same information in different boxes.
Tom:
The biggest problem is that Robert’s accounting team is too small to do all the work. But I’ve told them they have to finishby the end of January.
Diane:
Really? When did you do that?
Tom:
I had a telephone conference call with them last week when I was in Sydney.
Diane:
I see. That’s good. Moving on? Tom:
Sure.
