Maybe it is part of crafting an article but did anyone else find the contrast of the looming tech disaster and team champagning really unfair?
The issue was obviously a systematic one, and that 18 month slog would have been a horrific death march for the people actually working on the project so why shouldn't they be able to celebrate it being "over"?
Granted, it was a failure, but I'm not really sure what the floor staff - the actual "software engineers" who were pictured had to do with it when they were set an impossible goal to begin with...
The issue was obviously a systematic one, and that 18 month slog would have been a horrific death march for the people actually working on the project so why shouldn't they be able to celebrate it being "over"?
Granted, it was a failure, but I'm not really sure what the floor staff - the actual "software engineers" who were pictured had to do with it when they were set an impossible goal to begin with...