Re:Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret,...
by robertlagrant on Friday January 26, 2024 @06:02AM
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I'm not sure that both of these can be true at once:
> Agree that the courts are somewhat to blame.
> But really, to me, the full blame should be on the Post Office, and those involved.
Anyway.
> They constantly change, morph requirements
All software systems are like that. Even if they weren't, the moment a new law comes in you'd need to change them anyway. If the engineering process and build can't withstand change, that's a problem.
It seems clear that the Post Office and Fujitsu were complicit in the coverup, and the justice system utterly failed the defendants. All three are so poorly behaved, I hope some change will be triggered. Sadly, I think the way of the world is all organisations regress to the mean, and lots of them are allowed to let their mean get pretty low.
> Agree that the courts are somewhat to blame.
> But really, to me, the full blame should be on the Post Office, and those involved.
Anyway.
> They constantly change, morph requirements
All software systems are like that. Even if they weren't, the moment a new law comes in you'd need to change them anyway. If the engineering process and build can't withstand change, that's a problem.
It seems clear that the Post Office and Fujitsu were complicit in the coverup, and the justice system utterly failed the defendants. All three are so poorly behaved, I hope some change will be triggered. Sadly, I think the way of the world is all organisations regress to the mean, and lots of them are allowed to let their mean get pretty low.