But in Europe for the euro this is seemingly not the case. This was echoed in an article by Mitch Ratcliffe in PC Week. As a problem of similar scale, the Euro conversion is an excellent basis for making projections about the Y2K date roll-over. In fact, there are several deadlines, which apply to different industries. And different people will take different approaches depending on the industry.
Big bang is easier to do for smaller organisations.
Large, multi-national companies will have quite a different scale of problems. So for people in the wholesale markets, their deadline has come and gone, and yes, they did have that management challenge. They had prepared for it for a couple of years and in a newspaper article recently some spoke of four rehearsal runs during 1998. One project manager told me that on the conversion weekend, one team ran over by a few hours. But the next in line were not nervous about this.