As the most senior member of the team present, what can you do to convince Lou and Stan about the importance of testing the accounting module with live data? What can systems analysts do in planning their time to allow adequate time for testing with test and live data? What are some of the possible problems the team members may encounter if they do not test the system completely with live data before putting the system into production? Realistically, are there steps in the systems analysis and design process that can be collapsed to bring a delayed project in on time? Respond to these questions in two pages.

“We’re strapped for time. Just look at this projection,” says Lou Scuntroll, the newest member of your systems analysis team, showing you the PERT diagram that the team has been using to project when the new system would be up and running. “We can’t possibly make the July target date for testing with live data. We’re running three weeks behind because of that slow equipment shipment.”