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alganet 7 hours ago

A company with hundreds of engineers and anyone of them can overpromise on some random feature?

Sounds like a widespread communication issue.

bluGill 5 hours ago | parent [-]

That is why we have processes - so people know what promises they can make.

Communication is hard - you can spend all day, every day in meetings and get nothing done and still fall behind in communication needed to make this large project work.

alganet 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

I've been there.

If it happens too much, then the process is not working. Do you agree? If it happens occasionally, then it's just variance.

If it is important to a team to know about this variance, then I could imagine someone would think of measuring it, temporarily, to understand the situation. But not turn the whole thing into a process.

I've been on teams that transformed every little mistake into a lesson, burdening the whole team with cargo cult processes. Things we did because "once upon a time....". That's not healthy. I'm not implying that's your case, just showing another perspective.