RE: Another WSIT triumph?


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Maher [mailto:maher_rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: March 17, 2008 7:02 AM
To: Info-VAX@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Another WSIT triumph?

Hi Again,

Apparently that job posting has expired, but a new one has been posted;
here
are the details: -

Cold Fusion Developer Permanent

ColdFusion Web Developer.
Location's: Arlington, VA (Pentagon)
Performance Profile:
Responsibilities include & requirements definition, application
maintenance,
and user support in a production environment. Responsibilities also
include
support necessary to migrate the DON Industrial Budget Information
System
(DONIBIS) from an OpenVMS Legacy platform (COBOL, DCL, Rdb, Datatrieve)
onto
a Windows 2003 system running Cold Fusion and accessing Oracle 9i
databases.
This task will require coordination with onsite functional
sponsor/users,
the government project manager, the onsite technical team and offsite
users
and customers to gather requirements and incorporate that information
into
functional design and application modifications.

Daily duties include but are not& limited to the following:
1 - Perform requirements investigation and definition in support of
- Budget Application Enhancements and Modifications
- Migration of the DONIBIS application from OpenVMS to a
Windows/ColdFusion environment
2 - Perform Application Maintenance
- Support and develop Cold Fusion applications to interface with
existing
data sources
- Create Microsoft Word and Excel documents via ColdFusion
- Develop system documentation
3 - Perform user support



[snip...]

Yeah, gotta love these IT Mgrs who read PC Week way to much...

Lets see now .. take a couple of years of lowball estimates of what it will
really take to do the migration, leave out the Operations impact, add a year
or two more while they change the name of the project to cover up that they
are 2+ years late and many millions of $'s over budget + 1 to 2 years recovery
time when the sponsor decides it is time to run for cover and CYA...

Yep, sounds like a great story in the making ..

:-)

[I know of one environment here in Canada that is approx $100M over budget,
three years late, gone through a couple of sponsors and only now is the
new sponsor asking basic questions like "after all this, what was it we were
trying to accomplish?"]

Very similar to this article someone recently posted here:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Jurassic-Programmers-.aspx

:-)


Regards

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
Voice: 613-254-8911
Fax: 613-591-4477
kerryDOTmainAThpDOTcom
(remove the DOT's and AT)

OpenVMS - the secure, multi-site OS that just works.



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