Yes, the engineers (or painters) are never satisfied [I know, I *am* one] The *MANAGER* has to clearly define *what is good enough* and stop work once that point is reached.
Martin Fowler et al's series on XP (eXtreme Programming - which is not extreme at all) is a good read an applicable to many facets of life, esp project management on a boat - "Do the most important thing next" and "what is the simplest thing that could work" [be wary of this one - simple is *hard* :-) ] jim boat-less at the moment, farm-sitting on the big island of Hawaii On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:45 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be fair, it's not just engineers. Recall that Van Gough's brother had > to almost rip the paintings out of Vincent's hands to get them to market. > > > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > Lying Julington Creek FL > N30 07.68 W081 38.47 > >> To quote my brother, who is an engineer working primarily in >> engineering design of vibration damping boxes for aircraft >> electronics, there is an old saying: >> >> "You finally have to shoot the engineers and go into production". >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
