CAATS Winnipeg

GoHaBsGo · Post by **GoHaBsGo** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:02 pm

the_professor wrote:
Pygmie wrote:The thing is, for high level controllers CAATS is gold.

And even for low level controllers, it's not THAT bad. (With a couple of exceptions.)
I hope that you are making that statement as a low-level controller yourself? Over time you get used to the irritants. However, it has permanently increased staffing requirements. When a system produces the exact opposite of what was intended, as CAATS has, it means some severely retarded people were in charge of the development and modifications.

Pygmie wrote:As a result, most of the functionality was stripped out, and they adapted the software to print paper strips.

95% of the problems with CAATS are strip-printing related, and since that was never an origional design function, it's not suprising that there are this many problems.
And why that would seem to have been a reasonable course of action to whomever made that decision is a giant mystery. Any idiot should know that you cannot reverse engineer a "paperless" system to work with paper unless you start again from scratch.

Next on their list is probably to suggest using permanent markers on white boards, because they won't smear as much...

With all the money already put into the system, I don't think starting over was ever an option, they just had to make it work, even if it will become obsolite at some point.

the_professor · Post by **the_professor** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:45 pm

GoHaBsGo wrote:With all the money already put into the system, I don't think starting over was ever an option, they just had to make it work, even if it will become obsolite at some point.

"I don't care if it won't work, just make it work!!"

Sad, but true.

HotelLima · Post by **HotelLima** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:24 am

Received word yesterday here in YYZ that the YUL ORD is delayed until further advised. That means CAATS in YYZ will be pushed back as well. Probably until after summer rush and we can all start the money train over again.

the_professor · Post by **the_professor** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:54 pm

HotelLima wrote:Received word yesterday here in YYZ that the YUL ORD is delayed until further advised. That means CAATS in YYZ will be pushed back as well. Probably until after summer rush and we can all start the money train over again.

Due, in part, to the fact that Ottawa had no idea how many workarounds were put in place in WG in order to make things run. (Workarounds required because the system was developed by retarded individuals who have no concept of systems analysis in the context of software development.) Some of the workarounds were either not practical or possible in YUL, hence the delay.