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Is this any way to run a high tech effort? This sounds like what I've
seen on all too many projects, where no one wants to admit to needing
a slide until they absolutely cannot avoid it and then they take the
minimum slide possible. What this means is nobody else can adjust
their development to a new longer schedule, so things get taken out to
make schedule then there isn't time to put them back when the slide
becomes official, so you get a death spiral of a thousand small cuts.

I was talking to one of my other aerospace friends (Mechanical Engineer
who used to work for a large aerospace company) and he said it's classic
"schedule chicken". You don't admit you need more time, but as soon as
someone else does, you breathe a sigh of relief knowing you need more
time too.

This time, it's the GAO calling NASA out.

Jeff
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