Posts by Shevchuk

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

Re: Boy genius

I was a very early investor in Den. I sold my shares about 2 years ago on the secondary market when it became clear that Yasser was an absolute chancer. I have a long professional history of making elaborate excuses to cover my behind when I haven't done something I was supposed to do, and once I started reading Yasser's 'updates' it was easy to recognise a genius excuse-maker at work. The product itself clearly had many technical flaws, but the biggest issue was the laziness of the management team, rushing to market without testing, and fundamentally a refusal to deal with problems head on. That's bad news for any business, never mind one that was based on questionable technical assumptions in the first place.

'Big Bang': Great for creating the universe, but not as an approach to IT migration, TSB told

In my opinion you are going very easy on the TSB CIO. The report contains multiple examples of him wilfully ignoring or misrepresenting evidence that the project was not ready, including ordering staff to falsify RAG project scores on more than one occasion. I imagine he will cop a lot of heat off the back of this report.