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Meanwhile, I’d like to bitch about scope creep.
Every time I hear certain members of the management team at work are skulking around one of my projects, I brace for impact… they’ll have something they want me to add to it. Deadline? What deadline?
Also, there’s a couple guys who think that because they can put a quote together in a half hour, that’s how long it takes to engineer it. “Hey, Jim, can you do this thing real quick?” ::look at thing:: “Sure, come back in a week. Oh, and which one of your other hot jobs gets pushed aside for this one?” “But it’s just this simple thing…” “Yep. Simple. It’ll take a week, assuming I don’t get interrupted.” “How long does a complicated thing take?” “Complicated starts at 3 weeks and goes up from there…”
But they never learn. Another guy asks me how long, and how much $, then proceeds to quote roughly 1/4 of the time, with 1/2 the budget. Then they wonder why it takes 4x as long and costs twice as much as they quoted to actually get the thing built & tested…
I also hate the lack of ductility in 17-4 PH900 stainless steel. It’s oh-so-strong, but oh-so-brittle, too. Load-load-load-yield-snap. What I need is load-load-load-yield-stretch-stretch-snap.