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>When you're doing things at the scale of Boeing or Google, you need a lot of process Are you sure "need" is the right word here? Whatever Boeing's been doing
by logicchains 4y ago
>When you're doing things at the scale of Boeing or Google, you need a lot of process
Are you sure "need" is the right word here? Whatever Boeing's been doing recently hasn't been working very well for them or 737 Max passengers.
- zmmmmm 4y agoyou really do At large scale you can't hire enough competent people. And scale x low tolerance for error means you can't rely on humans even if they are competent. To fix that you basically have to introduce process. Things are checked and controlled at numerous points, using blanket processes that often don't make any sense for the specific scenario at hand but are needed for something superficially similar. People end up in hierarchies of approval. And that's without even considering regulatory compliance which often simply mandates things at a blanket level because micro-auditing each individual part of a big company is essentially an impossible proposition. Engineers have the best chance because we have it in our hands to automate so much, but still, we just haven't figured out a better way to do it I think.
- cokeandpepsi 4y agoI was on a 737 Max the other day, it's a nice plane