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£30m Sheffield University Classic IT Disaster
- mikej1000 5y agoUniversity of Sheffield is big, but £30m stills sounds like a lot to spend on a student management system. I believe the SITS system is written in uniface - "You're building all these views and processes and you get all of the problems that you would do with conventional software development, [however] you just don't have any of the standard tooling that makes your life easier while you're doing it".
- h2odragon 5y ago"Configurable, with no code" ... Once something passes some level of complexity (mystic hand wave) its configuration is code.