Originally Posted by
qbnkelt At work, we were tasked with interfacing two old systems together and to provide single sign on. I got a level of effort from my team and provided it to my Director. The schedule stated that we would have the work done by last May.
I divided the teams and one team accomplished the single sign on piece ahead of schedule, to include all pertinent security Authority to Operate revisions and Privacy Impact documents. I reported that and my Director was pleased. All seemed well.
The second team ran into all kinds of difficulties stemming from hard coded systems that required extensive recoding of old systems that had been around since the early 80s. Ancient, archaic stuff. I reported in April that it was not likely that the work could be accomplished within the scope provided. In a position paper I detailed the reasons why we could not do it and proposed an interim separate system that would serve as a service app for both systems while a third system would be created that would gather the data, serve it, and report it. This was accepted. The new system is due May 2014 with the bus due August 30.
Given that my task was to create an interface for the two and I didn't provide it, did I lie? Or was the situation such that it was not feasible to pursue the initial project?