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re: Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:19 am to Korkstand
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:19 am to Korkstand
Eh. To be fair excel is likely played a role for a vast majority of the worlds innovation (gotta be in the trillion $) and offers a powerful platform with low barrier to entry. Literally people can just learn excel and improve their livelihood substantially.
Without knowing details on the issues you mentioned, I would imagine it’s a user error vs an actual program issue. It’s a tool to capture information, perform calculations, and ultimately drive decisions. User error is not software error (the gun didn’t pull its own trigger).
I suspect a lot of effort in removing excel is to allow businesses to hire dumber people at a lower cost with a safeguard keep the company out of the ditch. It can also hide some of the steps from any employee wanting to actually learn and branch out on their own.
Without knowing details on the issues you mentioned, I would imagine it’s a user error vs an actual program issue. It’s a tool to capture information, perform calculations, and ultimately drive decisions. User error is not software error (the gun didn’t pull its own trigger).
I suspect a lot of effort in removing excel is to allow businesses to hire dumber people at a lower cost with a safeguard keep the company out of the ditch. It can also hide some of the steps from any employee wanting to actually learn and branch out on their own.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:36 am to GatorH8r
quote:Certainly, but it is not the tool for every job.
Eh. To be fair excel is likely played a role for a vast majority of the worlds innovation (gotta be in the trillion $) and offers a powerful platform with low barrier to entry.
quote:A huge amount of software developer time is spent on preventing/correcting user errors. Excel has a footgun behind every cell. When it is that easy for users to blow things up, and that hard to prevent such things, you are absolutely using the wrong tool for the job.
Without knowing details on the issues you mentioned, I would imagine it’s a user error vs an actual program issue. It’s a tool to capture information, perform calculations, and ultimately drive decisions. User error is not software error (the gun didn’t pull its own trigger).
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