Case files

Real projects. Clients stripped out.

The dysfunction is ours to share; theirs isn't.

1. Case 001 · Payroll bureau · Southern AfricaThe Payroll Month That Checks Its Own HomeworkThousands of payslips a month, one bank file format older than some of the staff it pays, and a checklist that refuses to let anyone skip a step.
2. Case 002 · Public fund · Southern AfricaThree Rules We Swore We Would Never BreakTwo decades of rules: never go live twice at once, never migrate legacy data, never implement during stabilisation. This project broke all three, on purpose.
3. Case 003 · Pension fund · Southern AfricaThe Forms That Would Not LaunchAn Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade, a brand new appliance waiting patiently in a rack, and a Java login screen that had opinions.
4. Case 004 · Industrial business · Indian OceanCannot Edit Standard ChartsA production upgrade that failed on the first attempt — by design, safely, with a backup — and the rule we wrote so it never happens again.
5. Case 005 · Internal · Everywhere we workThe Client Is UsEvery internal tool is a scar with a version number. Here are ours.