What's the worst project you've ever been involved in and why?
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version 4 for Mac - it was completely half-hearted, was missing a lot of features, and those that were included didn't work half the time
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ACN, DWP-predecessor in Litham, massive dinosaur development project, 16 hour days for weeks, psychotically competitive stream leads, **** the staff attitude by ACN mgt
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Perhaps if you wrote in plain English we might understand why the DWP project was so bad...what have the dinosaurs got to do with it?
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Most of the projects I worked on when I was with PA were a blooming disaster.
Unlike the T5 baggage handling project or the lost memory stick, which were just an unmitigated disgrace
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Worst project: Dept of Health merger of three commissions. Insane project timetable (total of 6 months to merge offices/HR/IT/Staff from start to finish), totally under-resourced and high levels of stress for all involved.
Of course, this was a PA Consulting project. My experience at PA was that they seemed to sell projects frequently under-staffed (to make them cheaper?) and totally mis-managed client expectations. Result was consultants were abused/over-worked, unhappy, and mental breakdowns/illness due to stress seemed to be frequent.
I've never posted about my terrible experience at PA before, because it seems I'm one of hundreds on this forum who felt the same! Working at PA was my worst career move. So glad I'm happy at another consultancy- where they actually care about their employees and their happiness!
(sorry if you all have heard this before on this forum-don't need to start another "PA is evil" thread)
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Six weeks in Singapore doing a programming job well beyond my capabilities. Worked my bottom off. Didn't believe in what we were doing. Hated the place.
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We came to the manufacturing facility to work on a process improvement program which turned out to be a head-count reduction exercise. When this came clear to the team (and the employees) the project became a HUGE disaster and nobody wanted to work with us anymore. It was my point-of-no return and decided to leave the company. So in a way it was good that I worked on this project, because (1) I left this crap company and found a much better job and (2) I learned "how-not-to-do-projects".
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I sympathise with the "Happy to be free from PA" poster. I still sometimes have a recurring nightmare about working at PA and a particular string of incidents that wakes me up in a panic. The relief when I realise I'm in bed and working for a decent company now is incredible.
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My worst project is my current one. A micro-manager SE who gets involved everywhere, is strongly opinionated, doesn't understand technology but can 'spin' amazingly. Can't wait for May's laddering so I can leave!
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i worked on a software gig once that was such a failure, the client ended our contract and sued us for over $10M!
The consulting company was a mid-sized IT consulting outfit. Of course, they counter-sued, claiming premature breakage of the contract. Currently in the mediation process.
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Which company have you (Anon & Happy to be free from PA) moved to from PA where work-life sounds so much better?? Thanks.
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