November 9, 2010
Justin
Data of the Information Technology Department with the State of North Dakota
worked with WSI on their plan to replace their software (ITTP project). He said the state was involved to safeguard
the project. Long's attorney Tuntland
presented an email Data had written to Long stating that as they were ready to
embark on phase 2 of the project, he was witnessing an erosion of the
management structure.
Data
testified in phase 1 Jim was the project sponsor, the "owner of the
project", made top level decisions and worked with the executive
sponsor. He said Sandy Blunt had worked
closely with Jim on the project but there was down time between the planning
and implementation phases. At that time,
things were very political at WSI and there was alot of news in the paper. He was concerned that they were all fighting
about small things for three weeks and that there were millions of dollars on
the line and he needed to have a clear line of authority. Data was happy how that had worked in phase 1
and he needed Long to fix this problem with phase 2. He stated he'd had no problems when Long and
Blunt were working on the project. He
stated that the executive office was in turmoil and that's not where you want
to be when you're ready to spend 14 million dollars. Data said backpedaling, extra personnel, and
no clear decision making always costs more down the line. He stated the standard line for every 1
dollar you spend, if you get it wrong it costs 10 dollars. Data said he wanted a clear line of authority
to be established as it was previously, he wanted decisions vetted and not
changed, and that Jim had been a very good project sponsor.
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