Whether the client is a municipality, a mill, or a campus, certain risks show up again and again: ambiguous ownership of master data, integration tests that only run in production, and reports that become the real system of record.
I push teams toward early integration contracts, inspectable audit trails, and performance baselines before go-live. The technology stack changes; the failure modes barely do.
If you are scoping a multi-year programme in the UAE market, invest in clarity around data residency, change control, and who can approve a schema change — those discussions save quarters later.
