Oh, that's always the case unfortunately. Doing things "properly" means you can't do them "tomorrow" or even better, "yesterday". It's funny to hear the same st

Oh, that's always the case unfortunately. Doing things "properly" means you can't do them "tomorrow" or even better, "yesterday". It's funny to hear the same story everywhere - including on something as critical as a power plant, and including the "secret" part. That several-hundred-person Excel nightmare? It had grown from "quick and dirty" shortcuts from middle managers, none of which were still around, none of which did the work (that's why you have unpaid interns), designed to bypass the official data warehouse project. They got promoted because they delivered the processes, and nobody checked the numbers (that's another "feature" of Excel shops - "if it looks like it works, it works"). The problem is that it's hard to sell "your numbers are off" to new clients. I toyed with the idea of making it conditional: "if your profit margin is more than 5% off, you pay us"...