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Ulster Bank Fiasco

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  • #32
    TrueDub
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 2,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭TrueDub


    COYW wrote: »
    Do most places not require you to do a backout plan and backout test plan before getting approval for changes to a live system. I thought this practice was standard in the corporate world for IT rollouts.

    It is - you can have all the plans in the world, but if someone doesn't follow it, or worse still, it's written wrongly and this isn't spotted, you're still goosed.


  • #33
    Sacred_git
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 337 ✭✭Sacred_git


    outsourcing ;)


  • #34
    mach1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭mach1982


    The thing the guys at the top don't understand IT. Sure most don't even know how use a computer .

    Simple fact: People do not care how something works just as long as it works.


  • #35
    schwdhry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭schwdhry


    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/28/rbs_job_cuts_and_offshoring_software_glitch/


  • #36
    Colonialboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭Colonialboy


    even this cloud could have a silver lining for some folk...
    at this stage RBS probably need to hire back some of the people they (whats the bull**** spin PC word Im looking for here ) let go to sort out this mess

    who knows maybe they already have ;)


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  • #37
    dazberry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,159 ✭✭✭dazberry


    Colonialboy wrote: »
    even this cloud could have a silver lining for some folk...
    at this stage RBS probably need to hire back some of the people they (whats the bull**** spin PC word Im looking for here ) let go to sort out this mess

    who knows maybe they already have ;)

    Well the terms beforehand would have been either "displaced" or "pooled", the latter being say 3 jobs (left) for 5 people, and the former being a fcuk off by any other name. So in terms of rehiring - who knows what crazy lingo they'd come up with!?! ReImplantation?

    D.


  • #38
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    The whole fiasco smacks to me of what we used to call a "compound problem"....ie. more than one mistake took place.

    From what I'm seeing so far it looks like a failure in their batching software combined with a failure to 'roll-back' on a night's batch processing.


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