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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by hedora on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:29PM (#27386182)
There’s also the effect where engineer A says “two years” and has a solid plan to hit that date, but engineer B says “6 months” without actually having a plan.

In my experience, engineer B usually gets to take charge of the project, and inevitably takes 3-4 years before the project ends, having failed to deliver anything that works.

Bonus points if the project is then declared a success by the pointy haired boss that bet on engineer B.

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by barnabee on Saturday June 05, 2021 @12:23PM (#27406341)
This seems like a very adversarial environment.

If you hand out ownership/status/power/money based on unsubstantiated project estimates, I’m not sure you can ever expect very good or happy results.

It’d be much better if all of the characters in that example sat down and decided what the most realistic best case with a solid plan looks like, and took responsibility for communicating it together, and you find a different way to decide who gets to own it.

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