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How a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars For Years (www.thedrive.com)
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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Those at the top are often more tech literate than I give them credit for. I suspect it is actually those armies of analysts that are holding it back

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Peter principle says otherwise, but analysts are a factor for sure.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I've witnessed the dilbert principle more

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I have access to database tools to do my job, but I don't know how to use those tools so I use Excel to do shit it really isn't optimized to do.

I am 100% part of the problem when I create a spreadsheet with formulas cross correlating data from 41000 entries, 9000 entries, and 1200 entries.