[Gllug] Open Source lobbying meeting - UKUUG London Thurs 19th

[John G Walker]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:20:12 +0100 (BST) Chris Bell
<chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat 14 Oct, John G Walker wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > Of course, the real solution is for managers not to be in charge.
> > They should be admin support, leaving the running of things to
> > those who know about them, whether nurses and doctors in hospitals,
> > or IT professionals in computer projects. Remember, if engineers
> > had been in charge rather than managers, the total number of
> > astronauts who've died in shuttle accidents would be zero,
> > 
>    Wish that was true, but unfortunately we all make some mistakes.
> 

In the case of both shuttle disasters, it wasn't "some mistake". Each
disaster was the consequence of managers overriding the recommendations
of engineers. There's a lesson here for those who want to learn it

-- 
 All the best,
 John
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