The Post Office Scandal: How not to Manage Software: James Christie

A forensic review of the ways in which Fujitsu and the Post Office failed to manage their Horizon software and how they were able to hide its failings through hundreds of court hearings. James describes the transparently obvious weaknesses and deceptions in the Post Office's prosecutions that were apparently completely missed by the judges. He explains the simple questions that should have been asked which would have exposed the Post Office's complete failure to manage their software competently, such as the record of use of privileged access and their review and responses to the Known Error Logs.
James Christie has a lifetime's experience of software testing, IT audit, IT security and IT development.
James' blog: clarotesting.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @james_christie

[@VernonStradling]

Thank you for holding this interesting conversation with James.

[@hearthetruththeonrecordpod4430]

It was a pleasure. And James will return in September for another discussion which we are really looking forward to. Please subscribe if you like what we’re doing. Jill

[@gemmapeter7173]

That man knows devs.

[@solsnail4741]

very interesting thank you.

[@hearthetruththeonrecordpod4430]

A pleasure Sol. Pleased you found it interesting. Jill

[@leso204]

Having watched severel vid's on this subject from a laymans point of view (me) may i ask the question was the supposed missing funds missplaced or was it virtual money fabricated by the glitchy software so was not missing ??

[@Ida-Adriana]

Fascinating, thank you. This unfortunate story reminds me of the dystopian movie Brazil.

[@tonyholmes962]

Yes. Superb observation.

[@steve-r-collier]

why do we need this software..cant we go back to the old accounting ways..i'm a luddite and like simple ways