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Old 1st Jul 2019, 04:51
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Imagegear
 
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I am well aware of the corporate ethos that allows: "Ship it, and let the customers identify the problems after operations begin. We can do a fix when we have a better idea of the impact." The ship date of units are driven mostly by sales and marketing types who are watching the competition and their "window of opportunity", Since it takes a long time to bring a product to market, the delivery slots are virtually cast in concrete. It was extremely unlikely in my profession that this slot driven ethos was going to result in loss of life, but may cost a shed load of money or the demise of the program.

I hope I am wrong but knowing something of work force ethos, I am sceptical.

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