Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B

Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by orwin on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:03PM (#25680012)

I've always been impressed with production engineers, cause they always find a way to explain to us (software/electric/electronic engineers) the issues with the marketing/commercial/supply chain side and explain to the executives/MBAs that, no, adding 10 people to a 5 people team won't make the team go 3 time faster. In big consortiums projects they are pretty much a glue imho.

Having a production engineer as an exec is probably the best way to run a successful team if you project involve multiple field of knowledge (as Apple probably does).

Tim Cooks understand tradeoffs, and this understanding should be expected of any top exec. Is it often the case?

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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by bumby on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:53PM (#25680938)

Once upon I time I worked in a process engineering gig. Literally every problem started by trying to explain no, just adding more people to a bad process won’t magically fix things. And yet, that was always the knee-jerk reaction to those owning the process. I think it’s because a bad process has the people constantly reactively fire-fighting they naturally feel short-handed

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