Its beginning to sound like the Space Shuttle Challenger. Warned of problems, management went ahead and launched.
I’ve witnessed such disasters in my career and this one looks to be the biggest and most impactive in the history of electronic computing.
It’s kinda fun to watch, in a sort of schadenfreude way. :-)
Like one woman birthing a baby in nine months or nine women birthing a baby in one month, huh?!
Oh man, just had some nasty flash-backs there! When you sincerely want to deliver a good product and you're on the receiving end of that kind of management incompetence, it's painful...
This is totally beyond the pale and will be the Prime Rib of IT Follies and Bloopers of the Ages.
As a software engineer I’ve seen plenty of bad ideas put into projects, but no company on earth would ever go forward and implement a package of this scope and breadth without testing.