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Morgan has threatened to sue Earl Spencer over 'fabricated inaccuracies' and 'examples of brazen falsity' in Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which has been serialised by the Mail.

After much anticipation Nigella Lawson finally made her debut as the new Great British Bake Off judge as the series returned on Tuesday night.

The only son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber died following a years-long struggle with drugs, panic attacks and his mental health.

Jodie Kidd has fuelled rumours she could be heading to Top Gear after dropping a major hint about joining the revived BBC series.

Coleen Rooney looked nothing short of sensational in a glamorous white satin outfit as she joined husband Wayne at their Disney+ premiere in London on Tuesday. 

Building work to create Springstead Village on a 138-acre site between the village and Cambridge Airport is well under way with around 200 homes already built.

An Essex fish and chip shop has been named one of the best in the UK and is now in the running for Takeaway of the Year 2027.

An Essex fish and chip shop has been named one of the best in the UK and is now in the running for Takeaway of the Year 2027.

Our submitter Tim C. shares his tale of an especially brutal culture clash:

I had co-founded a software startup doing stock market surveillance. In the early 2000s, the WTF Exchange (WTFX) was a major customer of ours. We were one part of a major project of theirs, a complete overhaul of their trading engine and IT systems.

Compared to our other clients, WTFX was quite bureaucratic. There seemed to be a strong focus on the process, rather than the mission or the result. They were even explicit about this, telling us, "The process is the deliverable."

I believe they made that explicit in talking to us because our culture was quite agile and thereby contrasted, or clashed, with the culture of everyone else working on the project.

"Predictability" was another buzzword they used to admonish us. We were required and expected to abide by the grand "waterfall" design and project plan and project timeline. The grand project was controlled via an enormous Gantt chart and they hated having to make any change to the Gantt chart.

There was one report which was central to the Exchange's surveillance department. The occasional opportunities I got to talk directly to end-users, they always stressed the importance of this report, and the importance of it updating immediately to changes in the filtering criteria, and the importance of the fine details such as colour-coding cells based on certain rules.

It became clear to me that we could not handle this report using a report definition file fed into our general report-writing module. It called for a custom piece of software. So over the course of the next weekend, in my hotel room, I whipped up a solution for these users: a whole new module to be added to our suite. It was maybe not perfect, but it was largely complete by the time I proudly unveiled my creation the next Monday.

However, instead of a pat on the back, I was greeted by looks of horror. This module had a whole new name, was not mentioned anywhere in the giant Gantt chart, had never been mentioned before as a concept in any specification document.

I had failed at "predictability." I had unleashed on the poor customer an urgent requirement to do a whirlwind set of meetings and priority changes and updates to the specification documentation and the giant Gantt chart.

In short, I had thrown the whole project into chaos.

This wasn't Tim's last brush with bureaucracy gone mad! Stay tuned for Part 2.

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