This article about "ghost buses" that show up in transit apps but don't physically arrive is a really great case study for simple-looking things that are harder when you peel back the layers. My favorite quote: "That was especially the case when SEPTA was still using old methods never meant to produce real-time updates, like handwritten notes of driver absences that got scanned and sent around by email" So many processes in #logistics are like this. They seem stupid and non-sensical from the outside, but when you look closely you find decades of processes and systems that need to get updated to fix the root causes. https://lnkd.in/eD5PFuUB HT Meir Rinde
Great article. I guess you could call Meir Rinde a "Ghostbus-ter". I'll see myself out.
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1moI have had many occasions to say this, and I don’t know where I got it: “every weird thing you see in code was a business decision at some point.” To your point, that holds true for EVERY part of a business.