Originally Posted by
CHINOOKER
"Computer says nah"
This is all very disappointing. Because as one of those
IT people, some very well spoken consultants in very nice suits and pastel ties
it is apparent that here were a group of guys, the engineers, the tug driver, etc, all actually wanting to do a good and sensible job, yet who were frustrated by the quite counter-intuitive "procedures" they had been told must be followed.
Now if I was designing it I would have a repeater of the information at the engineering base so the team could see, in advance, what was coming where so they could jump in and get errors sorted out. People not envisaging errors, clashes, etc, and how to overcome them immediately are one of the banes of the business world. I am afraid many such projects suffer by being put out to the lowest bidder, someone higher up the chain feeling that is all that is important.