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> Management is absolutely also to blame but it all started with the engineer. No. Whatever the engineer's responsibility, the engineer's management decided to
by pjmorris 12y ago
> Management is absolutely also to blame but it all started with the engineer.
No. Whatever the engineer's responsibility, the engineer's management decided to keep him, making it their responsibility.
"A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars."
- Gerald Weinberg's 'First Principle of Financial Management' and 'Second Rule of Failure Prevention' [1]
[1] 'First-Order Measurement', Quality Software Management, Volume 2, Gerald Weinberg, Dorset House Publishing, 1993
- jeremyjh 12y agoNo. Actually, professional engineers have a legal responsibility to do their work correctly and can be held personally accountable for failures to do so. This problem was not a failure of a management.