Who Is Really Funding Phase Two? Part One of a Series the Gazette Expects to Never Finish

Documents obtained by the Gazette show that the discovery phase of a mid-sized distributor’s ERP program has itself entered discovery.

The records, which arrived unsolicited and partly redacted, describe a scope of work whose deliverable is a second scope of work. An invoice line reads “Discovery (Discovery).” A second reads “Discovery (Discovery) — revision 3.”

The Gazette has been unable to determine who authorised the program. The signature block on the original statement of work is redacted. The redaction is dated after the signature.

Three people are understood to have owned the budget. Two have been promoted. One now sells the software.

The Spreadsheet Lobby, contacted for comment, said it had no involvement in Phase Two and asked how we had obtained its number.

This is part one. The Gazette has no expectation of reaching part four.