Can OSS Guard Against "Do-Overs" and "Stupid Decisions"?
Jul 08, 2007, 20:00 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Savio Rodrigues)
"BTL posted a 'highlight' of an interesting interview that Mary
Jo Foley did with Iain McDonald, director of project management for
Windows Server.
"In the interview, McDonald describes 'Windows 2000' as the
worst-run project of all time. McDonald says that 'stupid
decisions' and '7-day weeks for 30 weeks in a row' helped the
Windows 2000 project earn that title. Keep in mind that McDonald's
statement is from a project management standpoint, and we shouldn't
equate it to 'Windows 2000 was the worst product of all
time...'"
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