Practical writing on ERP readiness, governance, testing, data migration and recovery — for people who have to defend a go-live decision.
Migrated data that has not been reconciled is not migrated data. It is data that has been moved.
A signed UAT document is not evidence that the system works. It is evidence that someone signed a document.
You have seen the figure. Seventy percent of ERP projects fail. It is quoted everywhere, sourced almost nowhere, and it does not survive being checked.
Nobody sets out to mislead a steering committee. The reporting structure does it for them. On this page How a red status is actually born The mitigation trick Percentage complete measures the wrong th…
"On track" and "ready" are different claims. These are the checks that tell you which one you are looking at.
Most ERP programmes do not fail at go-live. They fail months earlier, quietly, while every dashboard still reads green. This guide explains what readiness actually is, how to measure it, and where the measurement usually goes wrong.