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by fl7305 83 days ago
From the video: https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?t=1942

  32:22 It's time to be honest. As engineers, we are not known to be effective communicators. That's just not a strong suit of an engineer.

  32:29 It is time to lay out and systematize the communication so that every organization that's involved knows far more information than they need. We have actual targets and dates that are actionable and they don't depend on a miracle in technological innovation occurring at some point on the Gantt chart.

  32:48 We actually have actionable things that have to happen in certain time frames. And if something doesn't happen, a critical technology isn't in development, we communicate that there's a schedule slip to everyone.
From what I've seen of recent very large engineering projects, saying "we need Gantt charts" is a good way to get sidelined/fired?

It seems that modern organizations absolutely loathe up front systems engineering and planning?