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You'd think such obvious payroll issues would be caught, yet there's stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
by richbell 3y ago
You'd think such obvious payroll issues would be caught, yet there's stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoThe issues with the Phoenix payroll system basically prove my point. First, that wasn't a "technical glitch", nor was it really even just a "software problem" - it was a complex project management failure on many levels. But, as your Wikipedia link points out, the problems and failure of the system were well known before the first Phoenix paycheck went out. I'm sure there were tons of government employees who thought "this is totally fucked" well before they went live. So for the PNG government to say "woops, we just sent out everyone's bad paycheck and nobody noticed until we started getting strikes/riots" (and mind you, the technical problem here really was just a "change that single value in that box" problem) strikes me as unlikely.
- richbell 3y agoYeah. The issue wasn't that nobody knew it was broken, it's that they knew it was broken and rolled it out anyway.