Jeff Moden (5/5/2014)
Heh... I don't bother trying to explain the triangle to people that don't know what a straight line is. I just tell them "If you want it real bad, that's the way you'll get it".There is no "cheap". If you do it wrong, the rework costs will kill you.
There is no "fast" unless you get damned lucky and actually took the time to define the problem. Heh... think about that paradox for a minute.:-P
The only thing left to do is do it right because neither cheap or fast is possible without doing it right. And, as Tom Thompson said on a similar thread, if you do it right, both cheap and fast are much more likely to happen. 🙂
Truer words were never spoken. I worked on a massive project for a prior employer which was micromanaged down to the smallest detail and the schedules were ludicrously short not, as it turned out, because the management was trying to squeeze blood from a turnip (so to speak) but because they had no grasp of simple algebra and had completely botched the overhead calculations (they had implemented a "quality assurance" program which added 40-50% overhead to the work -- insurance against the risks of such a large undertaking -- but didn't understand how to modify the schedules to account for it). Virtually every task in the project was late and overbudget -- some massively so -- and the end product was a framework of bugs which took a long time to tame. I reasoned that we probably could have gotten the whole thing done months earlier and with much higher quality if we had just been given sensible schedules to begin with. People took every shortcut in the book to try to come in on schedule and most of them backfired (as one might expect) requiring a lot of the work to be done over in even more haste.
- Les