Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B
by abraae on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:17PM
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Yep, INCIS was a cockup of massive proportions.
I remember interviewing a BA (business analyst) who had just come off of the INCIS project. She said their entity model was enormous, with tens of thousands of entities.
I couldn't understand how any project could have so many entities, let alone how anyone would ever hope to code up such a thing.
She said the commandment to the analysts was to model everything so they did, just like they learnt in data modelling 101.
So (INCIS was a project for the NZ Police), e.g.:
- A police station has zero or more cells
- A cell has one or more doors
- A door has one and only one key
- A door has many bars
Another data point in INCIS - my sister at the time worked in the police. Her workplace ran out of pencils (they did a lot of note taking with pencils and paper). INCIS had so thoroughly depleted the police's budget that there was nothing left for...say.. computers with email and the like.
I remember interviewing a BA (business analyst) who had just come off of the INCIS project. She said their entity model was enormous, with tens of thousands of entities.
I couldn't understand how any project could have so many entities, let alone how anyone would ever hope to code up such a thing.
She said the commandment to the analysts was to model everything so they did, just like they learnt in data modelling 101.
So (INCIS was a project for the NZ Police), e.g.:
- A police station has zero or more cells
- A cell has one or more doors
- A door has one and only one key
- A door has many bars
Another data point in INCIS - my sister at the time worked in the police. Her workplace ran out of pencils (they did a lot of note taking with pencils and paper). INCIS had so thoroughly depleted the police's budget that there was nothing left for...say.. computers with email and the like.