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This may sound crazy, but this reminds me the behavior of a self-optimizing system. Too many people work on little parts of it, nobody sees the big picture. Ev
by fla 11y ago
This may sound crazy, but this reminds me the behavior of a self-optimizing system.
Too many people work on little parts of it, nobody sees the big picture. Everybody applies the 'spec' blindly. At the end you get something that becomes very good at explotiing loopholes by 'itself'. It's a side effect.
I mean, your sunday-afternoon genetic algorithm would do the same kind of things :)
- vonmoltke 11y agoIf no one has the big picture, systems engineering is not doing its job. Systems engineering is supposed to flow the top-level specs down to the various teams, If those teams have issues with their requirements, they flow that back up. That is, of course, easier said than done. I have had to deal with my share of unrealistic flow-downs and unsympathetic systems engineers. In this particular case at VW the most likely root cause was a team that had a flow-down they couldn't meet honestly and couldn't change, so they cheated their way around it.