Rather different from the way the 777 development went, iirc. Then it was all about the great CAD system that gave them parts that fit together like a swiss watch, and away we fly.
As an engineer who's worked in aerospace since the days of Apollo (but never on airplanes, and almost always military, not commercial) I've lived with the management trends that were supposed to give us cost and schedule accountability but instead have given us meeting rooms full of committees making shared in-decisions with far worse results.
I hope Boeing Airplanes is better than that, but have no reason to believe they've been immune. They bet the company on a new way to build an airplane - new materials, global outsourcing - and so far it doesn't look like they're going to end up with a "Boeing".
Fire away.