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Fantastic open source project. I was involved in similar development a decade ago. The camera was in development hell will 1.6 million € wasted. There were perm
by lnsru 4y ago
Fantastic open source project. I was involved in similar development a decade ago. The camera was in development hell will 1.6 million € wasted. There were permanently changing product managers, project managers and contractors. No end in sight. And nowadays somebody publish their million euro development on GitHub. Thank you!
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoIn your opinion, what caused the development of that product to be hell? Bad/clueless management? Poor engineering hires? Was it a scrappy startup or a large established corporation? Asking since I've also experienced this and seems to be prevailing in this industry and yet I feel it's relatively easily preventable.
- lnsru 4y agoI had another case of the same development hell and I feel one coming in my current job soon. It’s easy for middle management to draw yearly plans in the slides. However reality can bite hard with silicon bugs, unusable libraries or even bugs in development tools. This camera disaster was in a big old company. They wanted to get mpg pictures straight from the camera to show on other device. Half million € was gone between planing and first buggy prototype. A company was hired to design it externally. This external company generated design with matlab rendering it non-debuggable. I think it’s managerial thing. I was screaming many times as simple developer not to hit own leg with an axe. But I felt like I was barking. Manager has always last word and there is a need for convincing to do technically sane thing. Now I just do what I was told. Even when technically it makes no sense. I don’t need additional tensions with insulted manager (anymore).