Personally I can't produce a sound bite like comment to explain how STUPID this situation is, shit-for- brains stuff this.
BBC version here
Lets have another report.
I know nothing about this particular system, however as an independent expert I am not surprised, it takes a brave lead programmer to control wades of not-very-bright project managers in what must have been a very disjointed environment.
TECHNICAL HANDS-ON-CODE EXPERTS MUST BOTH LEAD AND MANAGE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS, nothing else will do, ever!
John J Mulkearns, Webica
Here's a newspapers version of events
here