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12/18/2003 Entry: "What I do for a living"

I work on, “Systems where having good participants produces better results than having good planners”. That's it. We (we being "companies") hire really terrific engineers to compensate for our unwillingness and/or inability to plan, coordinate, or manage effectively. But we don't want just terrific engineers, we want cheap terrific engineers, so we'll go to India, where our inability to plan, coordinate, or manage effectively will allow us to waste the efforts of five times as many people, or for five times as long, before the project gets cancelled and we get to blame "the economy" for our own mismanagement.

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