David Wilburn wrote:
My experience tends to be just the opposite. You tend to get a good
schedule from engineering as they often take their best estimate and
multiply it by 1.5 or 2. This gives a cushion for delays and oppsies.
Project managers and marketing, now that is another level. They tend to
never want to leave a cushion, expecting beyond all past experience that
things will go -perfectly- "this" time.
I was once a Proj Engr, assigned to rescue a failed project involving a
number of circuit boards, racks, and land mobile radios. As we were
redesigning the circuit boards to withstand installation in trucks and
to actually be manufacturable, I was keeping track of the unit cost of
each of them. Those costs were declining as we got control of the
engineering, and better manufacturability. The Division Manager asked
me to keep him in the loop, and being the very naive engineer I was, I
did that. Then, someone explained to me that he was using my unit cost
estimates, multiplying by the contract quantities, and moving the
difference out of my budget and onto yet another failed project in the
hopes of keeping the corporate weenies at bay. My unit costs
immediately went back up some "due to vendor delays and back-orders,
among other things ... I'm really sorry Sir," and I became quite a bit
less naive about the workings of the business side of the business.
If any of the K3 field testers or early arrivals have fooled with the RX
audio equalizer, I'd like to hear the results. Since I can't use my
hearing aids under the headfones, I'm hoping I can use the equalizer to
beef up my hearing a little and start enjoying SSB contests. My K3 is
in batch 3 [I think] and will arrive sometime after the first of the year.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 08
- www.cqp.org
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