On 07 Oct 2018, at 00:18, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Oct 6, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: >> >> Excel ate the financial business world because companies use Excel to solve >> a simple problem, then add a feature, then add another feature, and keep >> going until they have some crawling creeping horror that needs to return to >> R'lyeh. There is never any point in this process when a manager looks at >> what's being done with Excel and says "Okay we need to hire a programmer to >> turn this into a proper App.”. > > Up to a certain point, there’s nothing wrong with that process. > > One of the tasks smart management should be doing is keeping an eye on these > guerrilla software development projects and step in when it becomes clear > they’ve got a valuable business tool that needs to be rewritten on a stronger > foundation to allow its continued growth and increasing value to the business.
But they don't IME. Someone hacks something together as a proof of concept, and management thinks that it's job done. The hack, which requires some manpower to use, and which is not integrated with other systems, is then handed over to Operations. -- Cheers -- Tim _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
