Decision Making Puzzle 1

Lets say that currently you are managing a big multi-year project that have significant impact in your enterprise application landscape. Suddenly there is another significant business initiative that also requires a thoughtful, distinct change in the core applications to support it, and have somewhat shorter timeline. Do you : 

a) request help from one of your system implementation vendor in the first project, knowing that some parts require some expertise that this vendor's team has, and knowing it would delay your first project because the whole team moves on from working on the first project to the second one,

b) finding another team to support the change, knowing there is some effort that will need to be put  in preparing budget, preparing procurement process to for the new team, so your involvement in first project will be reduced also,

or

c) manage the changes between yourself and some peers, knowing that the only person to understand the needed change in the core applications is you and your peers, and also knowing the second initiative is higher priority than the first project, thus allowing you to have minimum involvement in the first project for the time being.

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