The watchman and the robot

Once upon a time there was an ATM. There was also a watchman who stood guard to the ATM. The bank owners saw this watch man as an old fashioned accessory, even though he was doing his duties correctly. They wanted to modernise themselves. They wanted a new robot to guard the ATM.

Bank board met, they approved of the decision. Yes , a robot, that is the solution to everything, a reprogrammable robot, that is versatile, who can speak all languages.

They contacted a reputed company to construct the robot. Now domain experts came - retired thieves who used to rob ATMs. Workshops started. Workshops progressed well. Rather than a big bang approach, they opted for a transition.

How you will do a smooth transition. After hours of brain storming, the company found out a way. Divide the project into 3 parallel streams. Version 1100 - which is the watchman. Version 1200 - dress up the policeman as a robot. Version 1300 - Actual robot. All will proceed parallely.
In version 1100, people will work on the attire of watchman, will try to make it attractive. In version 1200, a masquerade of robot will be put over this attractive dress, in 1300, the all powerful robot will replace the masqueraded watchman.

Everybody was happy.

Version 1100 was a success, watchman became, more attractive. His costumes were a hit. But he could not run after the crooks with this dress. So the technology company sent 2 of its operatives to the ATM. They started to run after the crooks. Now 3 people were monitoring the ATM, yet an occasional crook came and took cash.

Everybody was waiting for V1200 to make things good. The masquearde arrived. Now the watchman was dressed up as robot. He became even slow. Now company increased 2 men to 5.
now 6 were trying to catch the crooks now.

Hmm , now version 1300 was really needed, it was rushed, and the robot came. It could nt run, it would nt let customers into ATM and more over it handed over cash to crooks.

Robot was quickly rolled back, masqueraded watch man was back.

But do not worry, version 1400 is in design, for teaching the masqueraded watchman robot dance.

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