Re:Triple-Triple Redundant 777 Primary Flight Computer (1996...
by ucaetano on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @08:58AM
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To be honest sounds more like you're talking about agile people. Move fast and break things doesn't work in any of those scenarios, I've seen a lot of people during my engineering days who just wouldn't work under the pressures required to design a system with extremely high reliability.
It goes back to hiring the right people, not to the people themselves :)
Re:Triple-Triple Redundant 777 Primary Flight Computer (1996...
by jhall1468 on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:34AM
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> I've seen a lot of people during my engineering days who just wouldn't work under the pressures required to design a system with extremely high reliability.
I think the difference is that most engineers understand when high reliability is necessary, even if they can't deal with the pressure of implementation. An MBA whose job is to "move the ship faster" simply isn't going to understand the distinction between parts of the system that can be thrown together, and parts that absolutely can't.
Hard to hire the right people when the majority of MBA's aren't engineering undergrads.
Agile is designed to get a product to a customer, rapidly and adaptively. But this is mostly useful for software that stands alone; you can't always rapidly adapt microcontrollers, bone drill burrs, heavy turbines and optical sensors. Even if you could make a 'quick hack' to one, there's 50 standards to reassess, and if one fails, you have to go back and re-do your change.
The OP is right. There are problems that require longer term, complicated solutions that have to be designed first, approved second, and implemented third. An agile MBA is not dumb; they just don't all work on the same problems.