As an example, I started working on Y2K issues in 1991, and it was a project that had been running for several years already. It was an enormous amount of work, at least 25% of the bank’s development budget for over a decade.
30 year mortgages were the first thing that was fixed, well before my time. But we still had heaps of deadlines through the 90’s as future dates passed 2000.
The inter-bank stuff was the worst: lots of coordination needed to get everyone ready and tested before the critical dates.
It’s difficult to convey how much work it all was, especially given the primitive tools we had at the time.
30 year mortgages were the first thing that was fixed, well before my time. But we still had heaps of deadlines through the 90’s as future dates passed 2000.
The inter-bank stuff was the worst: lots of coordination needed to get everyone ready and tested before the critical dates.
It’s difficult to convey how much work it all was, especially given the primitive tools we had at the time.