I remember in 2007 or '08 a colleague was assigned to Ericsson, to work on a time reporting "application" made in VBA, contained in a gigantic Excel spreadsheet. I also assisted in some troubleshooting.
It was called Tratten, swedish for "the funnel", and I remember him
telling me that when he presented it to some kind of stakeholder board and when said "sometimes, the application gives a 'read error'" and the whole board reverberated "read error?!" amongst themselves ...
I remember in 2007 or '08 a colleague was assigned to Ericsson, to work on a time reporting "application" made in VBA, contained in a gigantic Excel spreadsheet. I also assisted in some troubleshooting.
It was called Tratten, swedish for "the funnel", and I remember him telling me that when he presented it to some kind of stakeholder board and when said "sometimes, the application gives a 'read error'" and the whole board reverberated "read error?!" amongst themselves ...