Safely Migrating Legacy Systems: A legal-risk averse approach

This session is based on a data migration project that went wrong. Perhaps typically a contractor did not do a good job preparing for and implementing a migration to PeopleSoft. After the project had extended to twice its original cost and time length, the two parties sued and counter-sued each other - the total cost of the case eventually went to more than $6 million. Contractually the case went to arbitration. This tutorial examines what when wrong and how these issues could and should have been avoided. Delegates will learn the lessons learned the hard way by the participants including:

• Project management responsibilities beyond the contractual obligations
• Risks management responsibilities
• State of the practice data migration standards
• Due diligence responsibilities
• Vendor 'methodologies'
• Required standards of care and production of workman like products