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ERP PROGRAM HEALTH SELF-AUDIT
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Rate each statement honestly: 0 = not true for us, 1 = partly true, 2 = true. Expected time: 2 minutes
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ScheduleWe have missed at least one major milestone without a clear, agreed explanationNo0
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ScheduleThe go-live date has moved more than onceNo0
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ScheduleNobody can state the critical path from memoryNo0
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BudgetSpend is more than 10% over plan without a formal re-baselineNo0
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BudgetChange orders keep arriving for work we thought was in scopeNo0
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BudgetNobody has priced what a 3-month delay actually costs usNo0
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GovernanceDecisions routinely take more than 2 weeks to get madeNo0
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GovernanceStatus reports feel more optimistic than what we see day-to-dayNo0
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GovernanceThere is no single decision log both we and the vendor maintainNo0
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GovernanceSteering meetings are status theater, not decisionsNo0
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VendorThe SI and our team blame each other for delaysNo0
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VendorWe have no independent view of vendor deliverable qualityNo0
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VendorKey vendor personnel have been swapped since kickoffNo0
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TeamOur project lead has left, or is visibly burning outNo0
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TeamPeople are doing the project on top of their full day jobsNo0
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TeamKey users are quietly reverting to spreadsheets / old system habitsNo0
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Data & testingData quality keeps being named as the reason for delayNo0
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Data & testingUAT is planned but nobody has been freed up to actually do itNo0
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Data & testingTest scenarios come from the vendor, not from our real transactionsNo0
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Data & testingThere is no rehearsed rollback plan for cutoverNo0
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TOTAL (out of 40)0
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READING:0-8: healthy by the visible signals. Re-run this quarterly and before every phase gate.
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Recovering a failed ERP averages 150-200% of the original budget (source: Rand Group). An audit costs a rounding error of that.
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