TSB may not have carried out enough testing ahead of its notoriously botched migration to a new IT system in April, according to an early report from a team of IBM specialists brought in by the bank.
With customers locked out of accounts for days on end thanks to its disastrous switch to a new platform provided by Spanish parent Banco Sabadell, TSB brought in IBM to help it work out what went wrong.
In an initial report written as the problems still raged on 29 April, but only just released by the Treasury Select committee of MPs investigating the issue, IBM noted the complexity of the migration.
Yet, says the report: "Performance testing did not provide the required evidence of capacity and the lack of active-active test environments have materialised risk".
It continues: "IBM has not seen evidence of the application of a rigorous set of go-live criteria to prove production readiness."
Three days after the report was written, TSB chief Paul Pester told the Treasury Select Committee that the migration was not rushed through to meet bonus targets.
The newly released report includes a note from TSB stating: "It contains a preliminary work plan with very early hypotheses, produced after just three days of engagement with TSB.
"These hypotheses were not final nor were they a validated view of what went wrong or of the actions that may or may not subsequently have been taken."
Another report into the meltdown, from law firm Slaughter & May, is currently being written.
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