[coldcode]

I spent almost two years on a project of such a nature at a ginormous company in the low 8 figure budget that changed on an almost daily basis and was killed at the last second - in order to start an even larger and looser project, while simultaneously starting a second similar project in insane fashion. Coordination is mostly a hostile battle between high level execs, with lots of promises of this time it will be different and never is. I always question decisions if I can but often you get no access from a technical level to the people deciding (and battling about) what is to be done, so often you can only deal with lower level decisions in your area. Sometimes you win a little but often your winnings are lost in a sea of terrible decision noise.

Then again I've been in tiny companies with low 6 figure budgets for projects and you still wind up powerless to ask the right questions.

Sometimes you have to settle on getting your part of a giant project right and sigh your way through the rest.