@risottobias@tech.lgbt My favorite engineering management failure story from my automotive days involves #CES; it's even more funny, because management viewed it as a success. I was asked in October to have a new complex feature running on our embedded product in time for CES. I refused to do it, because I knew it would take longer than 2.5 months. Management turned around and got a new engineer to do it. ...
@risottobias@tech.lgbt ... This young guy worked 24/7 and got something that would run for almost 10 minutes before crashing. Management did closed door 5 minutes demos at CES to customers. One of them signed up for it for the next half model year. i.e., 6 months It was on a different embedded platform, and was almost a complete rewrite. It didn't make the half year mark, so 6 months late. My original estimate was for a cross platform version of it for them by March.
