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I work in government contracting, and have been doing it longer than you. On one project recently, some teammates were complaining about some unproductive thing
by acheron 5y ago
I work in government contracting, and have been doing it longer than you. On one project recently, some teammates were complaining about some unproductive thing we were doing, and I said "hey, this project is actually getting deployed and used by somebody, which automatically makes it more worthwhile than 75% of the other projects I've been on".
While I sometimes think that it's mostly a government thing, I figure big companies probably do the same.
- aerostable_slug 5y ago> I figure big companies probably do the same. Yup. Sometimes it's a Manhattan-project-esque "try every approach and we'll run with the one(s) that work the best" (this was the philosophy behind methods for enriching fissile materials during the war). Sometimes it boils down to organizational ineptitude, especially a lack of situational awareness such that the project becomes, in military terms, overtaken by events. Note that sometimes things run the other way, where inertia keeps a project going when the hard decision to pull the plug should have been made long ago.