Failed ProjectsYou start off with the best of intentions, but through raging incompetence, ineptitude or the plain fact that you're working in IT, things go terribly wrong and there's hell to pay. Tell us about the epic failures that have brought big ideas to their knees. Or just blame someone else.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 14:19)
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Major project in Belgium in the early '90s.Flagship joint venture between a bank and the company I worked for would have "revolutionised" the banking industry in Europe. Millions sunk on it.
We passed the first major delivery milestone and had even won some new investment from another key IT player in Europe. After 18 months of hard graft helping to get things to this point, I went on holiday for a couple of weeks to recharge the batteries.
I came back to find they'd shut the bloody project down and everyone from my company had left. I was put in charge of "handing over" the work we'd done so far to a very unhappy set of bank staff.
Lot of fun, that one.
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argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 17:59,
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