The Daily WTF

I recently caught up with an old co-worker from my first “enterprise” job. In 2007, I was hired to support an application which was “on its way out,” as “eventually” we’d be replacing it with a new ERP. September 2019 was when it finally got retired.

The application was called “Total Inventory Process” and it is my WTF origin story. Elements of that application and the organization have filtered into many of my articles on this site. Boy, did it have more than its share of WTFs.

“Total Inventory Process”. Off the bat, you know that this is a case of an overambitious in-house team trying to make a “do everything” application that’s gonna solve every problem. Its core was inventory management and invoicing, but it had its own data-driven screen rendering/templating

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