The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the result of clear errors

Re:The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the res... by pgt on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:44AM (#23599158)

I'd love to watch a "Disaster Class" instead of a "Master Class" on a variety of topics. The learnings about what went wrong are often more valuable than about what went right.

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Re:The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the res... by tobylane on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:23AM (#23601208)

BBC's Panorama[1] may qualify. One recent episode includes the IT bungle[2] at the retail company connected to the recently privatised Royal Mail which lead to dozens of false fraud convictions and hundreds of jobs falsely lost by firing with supposed cause or stress over accusations. The show goes back to 1953.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t14n

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_(IT_system)

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Re:The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the res... by throwaway_pdp09 on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:43AM (#23599528)

There are a few. There's one called 'crash' but I can't find it now, a bunch of case studies of IT failuers. It wax pretty much the same underlying story repeated over and over and over...

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Re:The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the res... by rossdavidh on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:41AM (#23600062)

Highly agreed; failure is much more informative than success.

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