making iT simpler

The devil’s guide to iT is for people who want to make iT simpler. Here you will find valuable insights and amusements to ease your iT pain. The guide caters for everyone, expert and novice alike, regardless of whether you: use, run, buy, sell or make iT.

The eye in your mud, or the mud in your eye?

Can we really trust spreadsheet numbers? Are spreadsheet-based reports the eye in your mud, or the mud in your eye? Do the numbers really help you to make sense of a complex situation, or do they cloud the issues by muddying the waters even more?

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one step forward, four steps back?

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It looks like the MOD has yet another poster child for The Trillion Dollar Bonfire. The latest Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts make sorry reading; for a number of reasons, not the least being the following damning statements:

“It is difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of the failure of the Joint Personnel Administration programme” [...]

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