You are the lead analyst on the system-testing team of a large enterprise system that will touch virtually every business function in the organization. Unfortunately, design and construction ran behind schedule by about two weeks. System testing is scheduled to take four weeks of intensive effort, assuming no major problems are found. Adding resources will not shorten the time required. If you stay on plan, implementation will be delayed by two weeks.

The system owner, who is the CEO, finds this unacceptable and tells you: “What do you mean that it is going to take a month to system test? I need this system up in two weeks, not a day later.

If you fi nd any problems, they can be fixed later!”

What do you do in this situation?