02-06-2019, 04:11 PM
(02-04-2019, 09:33 AM)Borin\ Baggie Wrote:(02-04-2019, 09:22 AM)Beano Wrote:(02-01-2019, 03:38 PM)Borin\ Baggie Wrote:(02-01-2019, 11:09 AM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: Held a project meeting this morning. Getting some idea of scope now: changes to customer and vendor data, tax codes; converting open orders on 30th March; changes to the wording on certain documents such as invoices. Going to keep our team of 6, plus assorted testers and trainers busy for the next few weeks. At a very conservative estimated cost of £6k a day (that's just my team, the company I work for will have other teams preparing in other departments), that's £250k to do something that might not yet be needed. Government just don't realise how their incompetence is costing business.
How's everybody else's preparations going?
Academic side: the university is scrambling about in full panic mode, but they've just signed an agreement with a top Irish university which should help things. Thinking of using it as an escape.
Industry: nobody knows anything wrt future contracts but seeing as they're working with a HS2 contractor over the next 6 months, they're confident for the immediate future.
HS2 looks more and more like it is going to be scaled back, costs are already out of control and talk of fewer trains and
reducing the speed of the trains, must make the entire projects core principles pretty pointless.
The company I'm involved with are working on phase 1, work has already started and is due to be ramped up in the summer. It's one of the few infrastructure projects I'm confident will go ahead.
And I could have a 4,000 word rant on the worth and purpose of HS2.
So the Southerners can commute north for cheaper housing in it.