Re:My Complicated Relationship with No Longer Being CEO
by x0x0 on Saturday December 26, 2015 @05:07PM
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This was interesting to read.
Apparently one of the things precipitating Rand leaving the ceo job was mismanaging a major project with an initial budget of 6-9 months and targeted release date of July '12 that slid to Oct '13 -- not only a slip of 15 months, but a very buggy release even after major feature triage. Though Rand doesn't say it, I'm guessing this was pretty hard on their engineering staff.
As an engineer who's worked on a similar death march with a major schedule slip that turns out to have been totally unnecessary, it was nice to see some accountability passed upwards for a change.
Apparently one of the things precipitating Rand leaving the ceo job was mismanaging a major project with an initial budget of 6-9 months and targeted release date of July '12 that slid to Oct '13 -- not only a slip of 15 months, but a very buggy release even after major feature triage. Though Rand doesn't say it, I'm guessing this was pretty hard on their engineering staff.
As an engineer who's worked on a similar death march with a major schedule slip that turns out to have been totally unnecessary, it was nice to see some accountability passed upwards for a change.