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And the government happily agrees because a) more scope creep, more budget, more better and b) easy political brownie points from the portion of the population
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
And the government happily agrees because a) more scope creep, more budget, more better and b) easy political brownie points from the portion of the population that think the government should be involved in everything. When was the last time you heard a government agency say "no we don't want to be responsible for managing the definition of some already somewhat nebulously defined industry product, doing that is not an effective use of resources in light of our mandate"?
- DFHippie 5y ago> the government happily agrees because a) more scope creep, more budget, more better The people deciding on the budget and bloviating about the budget are not the ones paid by that budget. And the people paid are not generally highly regarded or zealously consulted by the bloviators (well, different bloviators have different favorite budgets), so their agreement is immaterial to the decision.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoHave you ever worked in government? Use it or lose it budgeting creates a massive incentive to burn money on all sorts of things, including scope creep. The people actually making the decisions on whether or not to accept the scope creep don't need to be told by the political appointees at the top whether they should because if they weren't capable of reading the political winds they wouldn't have ascended to decision making positions in a government bureaucracy.