It canny be the project managers fault...
...so it must be the contractors!
Comedy lovers hoping to get their hands on tickets to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival have lost their sense of humour after discovering the company’s box office system went titsup on Monday. Tickets were supposed to be generally available to punters on 9 June, but festival organisers admitted today that they have been …
That's a damn good line, if ever I heard one.
Our department once formed an informal (but we pretty much stuck to it) policy never to buy from any company with the word 'solutions' in its name.
If anyone had called me saying that they represented Pivotal Integration --- I'd have just laughed.
The sad thing is that people don't have a clue how ridiculous they sound.
Yup, there are some serious flaws in their IT strategy.
Take the Microsoft ticket tent they put up on the top of the Prince's Mall each year. You can't buy a ticket from the staff there -- you get to go on one of their computers and book one on the Fringe website.
All well and good -- but you need to confirm your email address, and there's no way to check your email from these computers. I signed up on their site in 2006 and last year tried to use the Ticket Tent, but I'd forgotten my password, which they dutifully sent to my hotmail account which I couldn't see!
Ridiculous!