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Yeah exactly. Working in an IT Dept when someone said "ah they've built a spreadsheet to do it, but now they want us to add that functionality to the main DB" w
by codeulike 7y ago
Yeah exactly. Working in an IT Dept when someone said "ah they've built a spreadsheet to do it, but now they want us to add that functionality to the main DB" we'd all roll our eyes because it was another lashed-together thing that we would have to unpick and re-implement. But the fact is, if they'd come straight to us and asked us to do it instead of doing it in Excel first, they would have had nothing, for years and years.
- dageshi 7y agoAlso you can consider the spreadsheet versions as a nearly feature complete & tested specification.
- Ididntdothis 7y ago“But the fact is, if they'd come straight to us and asked us to do it instead of doing it in Excel first, they would have had nothing, for years and years.” Very true. As soon as us professionals take over the dev speed drops drastically and costs go up.
- Spooky23 7y agoI killed a project a few years ago that had spent about $8M on some project to implement a pretty straightforward business process. No end was in sight. The catalyst was Access 2003 going end of life, and this little app doesn't work. I don't know why one of a 3 BAs couldn't figure out WTF was happening and fixing it. We had an intern futz around with Access for a few weeks and it's been running fine to this day.