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heyheni
5y

Hertz the car rental company wanted a new website. They hired accenture. Accenture did allegedly a poor job. The site did not come with responsiveness, not with web components and 2 years over deadline. Hertz sues Accenture for $38+ million.

Scope creep deluxe?

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    I lolleth!
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    So were they agile or not?!
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    I hope they win, it’s about time this sort of cowboy coding is properly punished.
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    Wow 32 million a year. Consultants
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    @Brolls ‘cowboy coding’ implies the developer was doing bad stuff, but Ill bet ya that the fault can be found in managing expectations and correct analysis/setting up requirements. I remember working on a 6 week project for over a year, and then afterwards I had to explain why there were so much hours put into it. While the managers added a new feature every day on our scrum backlog that they got from the client. I reckoned they monitored the scope....
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    @jareish the devs did bad stuff. Front end code full of security vulnerabilities, for example.
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    I want such contracts lol
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    As far as web components go, I never thought I'd say this about anything js related, but Vue.js isn't half bad.

    Oh don't get me wrong, anything js is cancer, but as far as cancers go, Vue.js is like the dormant, nonspreading variety.
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