Top 33 Reasons Why You Can't Ignore the Year 2000!
  1. You honestly believe the year 2000 isn't a leap year
  2. You're getting into Real Estate.
  3. You like midnight phone calls from irate CEO's.
  4. You want to surprise your stockholders.
  5. You believe a crisis is good for organizations. It brings focus to your work and builds good, strong, team spirit.
  6. You think the problem is exaggerated.
  7. You've got lots of time, it's only 1997.
  8. It's a hardware problem.
  9. Your Mission Critical Systems aren't.
  10. The problem doesn't affect your applications.
  11. It's not a problem....it's a 'challenge'.
  12. You're afraid to deliver the news to your management.
  13. You haven't been able to find your management.
  14. You're waiting to see what happens before you react.
  15. You believe that if you ignore the problem, it'll go away.
  16. You'd rather drink coffee, than champagne on New Year's Eve.
  17. You like paying COBOL programmers $240K/annum to implement10 year projects in an afternoon.
  18. You believe that a year has 365 working days.
  19. You enjoyed your grandparent's stories about the Great Depression and would like to experience them for yourself.
  20. You're focused on IS strategies ... not day to day support issues
  21. You're not the head of IS you only work here.
  22. You are the head of IS and your people assure you there's no problem.
  23. You wrote the legacy systems affected and are reluctant to admit the problem exists.
  24. When the time comes you'll pay someone else to solve it for you.
  25. You're already up to your neck in alligators.
  26. You can afford to be without your Account Receivables for a year or two.
  27. You're waiting for everyone else to go first.
  28. The excitement of watching your systems fail is better than Bungee Jumping without a cord.
  29. You're doing the monkey impersonation ... Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil.
  30. You believe maintenance is for wimps, real managers create new systems.
  31. You're scheduled to start working on this in 1999.
  32. You bought a magic bullet from a software salesperson.
  33. You believe this is all a plot by consultants to create a problem where none exists.