ReformaTory space efforts as successful as F-35, Cyclone schemes

[james_davis_nicoll]

New satellite brilliant success save in the trifling matter of doing what it was supposed to be able to do.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Oy...

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Single most difficult thing about managing large projects; you can have success, or you can have control.

Conservatives in general always pick control. You can sometimes get a progressive rationalist to pick success, but you shouldn't plan on it.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

And the reviews of the article thus far posted to it?

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Attempt to assert who the real control freak is?

I don't have the specialized knowledge to distinguish between the claims, but the claims aren't that the project was well run, they're claims that the primary source of error was the CSA, rather than the contractor.

Since "oh, yeah, that was totally our fault" isn't something I expect anyone involved to say, I think it goes right on supporting "at no time was this project about achieving success".

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. That isn't the company a famous sci.space.* poster is at, is it?