Originally Posted by
A0283
Consultants never take away the responsibility of management. Managers decide.
Consultants bring knowledge and experience and are able to adapt to industry and company or come from them. Those that don’t should get a different label.
As far as I know in the whole 737MAX saga there have been no references to consultants….
That is the theory. In reality is is much easier to make a decision if you can point to a consultancy report (that is not publicly available) where you took some parts completely out of context. I have seen that way too often.
Technical consultants are a different issue, where often retention of knowlegde is an issue. In theory everything has been documented, in reality hardly anyone is able to go through the documentation, if they can still find it after a few years...
Didn't Boeing have some junior employee responsible for quality control with no actual power to take any action?