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No, most commercial bespoke development follows the "Agile" methodology. Analyst captures some requirements and logs them in JIRA. Architect draws some joined-up pictures. Developer creates a non-functional GUI and they put that in front of the client / customer. Then build out from that...

Indeed. In one company I coded for, developers had to do a 3 month secondment to support to appreciate the value of understandable code and use of comments in code to help. Also, we were trained to use "Hungarian notation" for all variables, e.g. dBirthDate, cName, nAge, lMarried which also...

Just substituting a couple of values for d to work it through. Using d as -5 the code will return +5 [the Absolute value] Using d as -10 the code will return +10 [the Absolute value] Using d as zero the code will return zero Using d as +5 the code will return -5 [5 - (5 * 2)= -5] Using d as +10...

I sussed that when it mentioned a central datacentre hosted database and a local mirror server to support synchronicity. Systems like this are architecturally sub-optimal and would likely be at much higher risk of data corruptions where connectivity between the two are flaky / lost...

For the less familiar, at that time, SAP with Oracle as the back-end database were the "Rolls-Royce" tools of choice for enterprise solution systems development. Doubt there'll be any fingers pointed at them.

As I've said previously, I've not worked for PO or Fujitsu but I have worked on many, many projects that are big, both in terms of numbers of users and Petabytes of data. Horizon was a networked system with one or more terminals in each post office. I very much doubt any data would have been...

Inland Revenue used EDS as IT supplier and shortly after IR merged with Customs to become HMRC and EDS lost the contract to a consortium of Capgemini, Fujitsu & BT. Cap did software, Fujitsu did hardware & BT did comms. Accenture were also bought in selectively on some new systems. With every...

Not remote control, remote access. IT support staff can't do their jobs without remote access to live data. I don't believe the PO truly thought Fujitsu did not have live data access.

I know there are many IT'ers on here who have worked in software development and will be all too aware of the constraint triangle. Time, cost & quality. I was not involved with Horizon but have seen countless government IT systems during my 35 years that delivered sub-optimal solutions due to...