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About a month ago, I expounded on "leadership" plan to convert our flagship app to Service Now (an off-the-shelf system). Well, a couple of weeks or so ago, we had our weekly migration planning meeting, and someone on the Service Now team asked how many users we have so they could plan on an appropriate number of "licenses" to be billed.
I responded with - "well, we have 540,000 possible users, about 30,000-50,000 of which could be considered "simultaneous".
I don't think anyone was really ready for that. We tried to tell "leadership" before they made the decision to migrate, but everyone's eye were filled with rainbows and unicorns at the prospect of "saving money". Turns out that it's going to cost them a lot more than what they're spending now, and the resulting "product" is still a giant black hole in terms of what they're gonna get.
I suspect the fact that not having had a planning meeting since that revelation is them backing off, and just letting us do the web app rewrite the dev team had originally proposed.
It remains to be seen if "leadership" continues down the path, or throws in the towel before any real money is spent, but at this point, it's hard to hide my smirk of "I told you so"...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Do we work for the same company? We're supposed to be switching to Service Now as well. (Also an enterprise with about a half-million employers, yet the vast majority would never actually access that application.)
I expect a bunch of middle-managers read a blog about how great the thing is.
That sounds like Oracle's licensing plan. (Ptui)
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Likely outcome:
They will go ahead with the plan so that those who pushed for it don't lose face
They will, as it sucks up money with nothing to show, change the management team.
Then, after an appropriate delay, they can trash it and no one (of them) needs take the blame since the previous heads are no longer involved and aren't responsible for what happens after they've left the procject and the current heads didn't get the project into the crapper.
Then, the vision required to see that this was a decision that was ill conceived will be rewarded as they give themselves bonus'.
(i.e., business as usual).
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Except that JSOP works, IIRC, for the DoD, so:
- The DoD will complete the current project, at exorbitant cost
- Only then will they discover that it doesn't scale properly to 500,000 users and costs more than the budget of all non-G20 countries combined
- They will then (and only then) use JSOP's proposal, which - as the project is already late - will proceed on a "damn the expenses, full speed ahead" basis
- They will bury the fiasco by classifying all related documents "drop dead before reading"
(IOW, SOP at the DoD)
EDIT: corrected typo
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 7-Jun-21 12:11pm.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The DoD will complete the current project, at exorbitant cost
Actually, they will NOT complete the migration, but still at exhorbitent cost. Ever heard of AHLTA? $10 BILLION invested, and it was STILL in beta as of 2011 - after 15 years of development. I don't know if it has progressed past the beta phase yet. Oh yeah - it was written using Visual Basic...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: Ever heard of AHLTA?
I had to look it up. It's got its own wiki page. Apparently internally known as "Ah Hell, Let's Try Again".
Seems par for the course for a government project.
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I'll betray my age here, but I seem to remember a major simulation program for the USAF started in the middle 1960's and never completed, and was still drawing in >$10M contracts for updates and technology changes in the mid 1980's. IIRC it was supposed to the the mother of all aerospace simulators. It would not surprise me to find it's still a thing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I suspect #3 will be replaced with:
3. They will then blame JSOP for not warning them ahead of time, even though he did.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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JSOP reads like a canny old bird. I'm certain that he has copies of all paperwork proving that he did warn them.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have emails from as far back as 1992.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Not everyone was born to be a leader.
Not every leader was meant to be born.
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Classic.
Software Zen: delete this;
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#realJSOP wrote: t's hard to hide my smirk of "I told you so"...
C'mon John... as if you would even try to hide it  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Are you working for the government?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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IIRC he is working for the military (DoD)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That should explain his problems and guns
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I have guns. I don't have any problems.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Why don't UK websites use biscuits instead of cookies?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Well, it depends upon how crumby they are, doesn't it ?
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Would people who refuse them be jammy dodgers?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: jammy dodgers
Tarts?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hey, now, that's my sister you're talking about.
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Because water and electricity don't go well together?
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Wrong etymology. They were named after the dodgy advertisers who made them popular, and were originally called crookies.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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