Originally Posted by
SwissCircle
What I don`t get is why their project management had to choose such an ambitious time frame; only to fail?
What I learned was to better allocate more time to very difficult tasks than not enough.
I've been thinking along the same lines - this is the (in)famous BER approach. Nobody forced them to only take the site down last Thursday (or whenever it was). Having said that, I would have assumed that whenever they took the site down they already had a piece of fully tested software, so it was just a matter of updating the SW, bringing the latest data in and then go live again (slightly oversimplifying but hopefully not much - this is not rocket science).