Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Random Stupidity #2

I'd like to get away from Birmingham by four o'clock at the latest, so 3:55 is not the best time to start a planning meeting for redesigning the gross margin delivery system.

Apparently having automatic subtotals in the sheet will be confusing because the end users are used to seeing the totals with a blank line separating each contract. Never mind that you can re-sort the whole list or auto filter for a particular contract or customer - if it isn't the way it has always been it won't do.

Repeat after me. Designing order processing systems to run on spreadsheets is a bad idea. A very bad idea.

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