The IT specification has been written and was passed on to my manager two weeks ago. Next week we will sit down and do an internal review prior to passing this to the support organization. In some sense there is no urgency as the data extract is only part of the overall project. The data will be extracted from our system and the main project will create a database and import it and enrich it, create various reports for yet other divisions.
Why isn’t there a rush to get this IT specification into the hands of the support group? It turns out the requesting department does have budget for their end of the project but no resources to begin. The actual problem preventing them from starting is they are missing a project leader. Further, company policy prevents the hiring of external consultants for certain roles – one of which would be project leader.