Comments on: Blunderful spreadsheet caused West Coast Mainline bid fail http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/blunderful-spreadsheet-caused-west-coast-mainline-bid-fail/ Simon Murphy on professional spreadsheet development stuff Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:42:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hibbert http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/blunderful-spreadsheet-caused-west-coast-mainline-bid-fail/#comment-18915 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:55:05 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=3149#comment-18915 The “GDP resilience model” that was used probably works. Whatever its potential output I suspect some form of input error. Anyway, whether it’s the model or users or a combination, I’m also glad it’s nothing to do with me. Gulp.

Thanks for the post and look forward to more!

]]> By: dougaj4 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/blunderful-spreadsheet-caused-west-coast-mainline-bid-fail/#comment-18914 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 02:39:54 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=3149#comment-18914 I think the financial people should have a chat with some engineers about how to go about checking the results of analysis when getting it wrong could have nasty consequences :)

(Nice to see you back by the way)

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