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Re: Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz

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Post by bo-oz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 8:13 AM UTC

equasar wrote: post #25

ep103 wrote: post #17

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They do. All the code they would have "Written" would have been done by offshoring teams in india or mexico or etc. These offshore locations only know specific technologies. A specific building in India, for example, may only know how to write WCF code that gets data from a SOAP call. Their Mexico building may genuinely only know how to write WPF applications. To be clear, this isn't a knock against Mexican or Indian…

>To be clear, this isn't a knock against Mexican or Indian people. But the people working in these accenture buildings are literally writing code using windows notepad, in un-airconditioned rooms, and fired if they don't deliver on time. I just stopped reading after this. You are full of yourself. I had the chance to work with a team in Accenture Mexico, and they offices are nothing but great, just look at the pictur…

Are you seriously trying to prove the expertise of Accenture Mexico by posting a link to Foursquare?

Re: Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz

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Post by kls » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 10:26 AM UTC

macspoofing wrote: post #29

kls wrote: post #19

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I actually did the exact opposite but I hedged my bets. Accenture was awarded a 40 million dollar by Marriott. At the time I was a fairly powerful executive at Marriott that was in charge of the web middle-ware and infrastructure technologies. They delivered a plan and it was pretty much we are going to build this whole thing on JSP, Struts and WebSphere. I wrote a manifesto to the board about how doing so was settin…

So what backend did you standardize on?

Java rest services. At the time we had heavy investment in Java talent and there was no reason to retrain a large group of in-house developers when they already had to learn a host of new technologies to adapt to the changing landscape of the web UI and mobile.

Re: Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz

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Post by jrochkind1 » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 12:34 PM UTC

> And then in what may be the ultimate management consulting logic, Accenture apparently told Hertz that to speed up the production of the website's content management system, it wanted to use something called "RAPID" – and told Hertz it would have to buy licenses for it to do so. Hertz bought the licenses, however, it turned out that Accenture didn't actually know how to use the technology and the quick-fix took longer than it would have done without it.

Anyone know about what they're talking about?

Re: Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz

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Post by nitwit005 » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

emiliobumachar wrote: post #30

supro wrote: post #27

I will be honest to admit, before I read this article, I didn't even know charging $32 million was possible for a website.

Brace for impact. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-24/obamacare... "The federal government’s Obamacare enrollment system has cost about $2.1 billion so far, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of contracts related to the project."

That had senators intentionally shoving bits of the system into their state. They wanted more money flowing to the state, so larger numbers were a plus from their perspective.

They got to blame any failure on Obama, so why not I guess.

Re: Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz

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Post by WallyMcClure » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 5:33 PM UTC

I’m surprised by reading this. I worked at The Coca-Cola Company in downtown Atlanta for a few years. What I watched TCCC do to outsiders just boggled my mind. It seems that everyone is jumping on Accenture. I have no love for Accenture. I’ve heard lots of bad about them from before this story. Because I worked at TCCC. I can only imagine the hell that Hertz put them through. This was a five year project trying to get jammed into 15 months. I got the feeling from reading the complaint that the hertz people knew what was being asked for and they didn’t share that with anyone from Accenture. There are rules for successful software development. Hertz violated plenty of them and got what they deserved.