Originally Posted by
hughw
Are you serious. Do you really expect CO IT people are able to do this when it took them weeks to get the web site right? ....
If Delta's IT people can do it, why can't CO's? Deltamatic is one of the most horrible and arcane back-end mainframe systems I ever had the misfortune of tripping over - yet they have wrapped some fantastic functionality for both customers and agents around what used to be a mess. I used to know someone who was part of the modernization project about 8 or 9 years ago.
We keep hearing about CO's IT people - they can't do this or they can't do that. I don't know if it's the people or the processes, but something needs to change if it's really that difficult to get something done correctly or come up with outside-of-the-box solutions. I agree the website was a mess, but I think that was more of a process problem (not enough real world QA) than a people problem.