On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:59:58 +0200, Peter Otten wrote: > Other than that I find it hard to believe that a "bean counter" can > change a technical spec. He may put pressure on the designer, but when > the designer gives in he's still responsible for the resulting technical > problems.
Surely it depends on how dysfunctional the organisation is, and whether or not they are answerable to independent standards. Ultimately, the engineers answer to management, and if management treat them as drones that have to do what they're told instead of experts that can make decisions for themselves, anything is possible. When you hear of technical disasters like tens of thousands of cars having to be recalled, or laptop batteries catching fire, or similar problems, we almost never find out whether this was an unavoidable failure, a technical mistake by the designers, or a case of managerial interference. Fortunately I've avoided having to work in that sort of environment, but my wife used to work in the entertainment industry where that sort of managerial interference is the rule, not the exception. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
