re: [K3] Shipping Update

[MontyS]

A wise project manager once said -

You can have your novel, one-of-a-kind, never-done-before project on time, or on budget, or on spec. But you can't have all three.

Most people opt for the delay in order to hold the price down and maintain quality.

Everyone sets achieving all three as a goal.  Missing the timeline is not surprising. I just ordered my K3 and will be smiling in anticipation of its arrival next year.  Meanwhile, anybody want an Icom 756 Pro II?

Monty, K2DLJ
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[Bill VanAlstyne W5WVO]

Monty Shultes wrote:

> You can have your novel, one-of-a-kind, never-done-before project on
> time, or on budget, or on spec. But you can't have all three.
>
> Most people opt for the delay in order to hold the price down and
> maintain quality.

<ROTFL> Wow, Monty, where do (did) you work? I want to appply for a position
there!

With the exception of my current employer (thankfully), in my thirty years
working in various Silicon Valley high-tech companies, the development project
priorities have usually been, in this order:

(A) Schedule
(B) Budget
(C) Spec (features, quality, performance, etc.)

Of course, in the mad 80-hours-a-week rush to meet the ship deadline set by
Marketing, all kinds of things would be done wrong, or poorly, or not at all,
and (C) would go completely out the window, to levels even Sales couldn't
stomach. This would then require much redesign, rework, retest, etc., blowing
both (A) and (B) out of the water anyway.

And Management would do this again, and again, and again...

One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while
continuing to expect a different result each time. I'll tell you, most of the
high-tech companies I've worked for were certifiable!  :-)

Bill / W5WVO

>
> Everyone sets achieving all three as a goal.  Missing the timeline is
> not surprising. I just ordered my K3 and will be smiling in
> anticipation of its arrival next year.  Meanwhile, anybody want an
> Icom 756 Pro II?
>
> Monty, K2DLJ
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[N5GE]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:15:14 -0600, you wrote:

>Monty Shultes wrote:
>
>> You can have your novel, one-of-a-kind, never-done-before project on
>> time, or on budget, or on spec. But you can't have all three.
>>
>> Most people opt for the delay in order to hold the price down and
>> maintain quality.
>
><ROTFL> Wow, Monty, where do (did) you work? I want to appply for a position
>there!
>
>With the exception of my current employer (thankfully), in my thirty years
>working in various Silicon Valley high-tech companies, the development project
>priorities have usually been, in this order:
>
>(A) Schedule
>(B) Budget
>(C) Spec (features, quality, performance, etc.)
>
>Of course, in the mad 80-hours-a-week rush to meet the ship deadline set by
>Marketing, all kinds of things would be done wrong, or poorly, or not at all,
>and (C) would go completely out the window, to levels even Sales couldn't
>stomach. This would then require much redesign, rework, retest, etc., blowing
>both (A) and (B) out of the water anyway.
>
>And Management would do this again, and again, and again...
>
>One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while
>continuing to expect a different result each time. I'll tell you, most of the
>high-tech companies I've worked for were certifiable!  :-)
>
>Bill / W5WVO

{snip}

Amen!  I retired from the software development rat race in June :o)

Tom, N5GE

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