Originally Posted by KenV
H-53K was a big success
Development is currently
45% ($2.1 Bn) over budget, and the program is already four years behind schedule, a figure likely to slip further.
Flap Track 6 covers many of the causes. Others include a disconnect between top management and engineering in many firms where engineers are overlooked by the management development process; a tendency by CFOs (esp. in publicly traded firms) to adopt the best-case program schedule as the most likely schedule; and the usual proclivity towards firefighting -- i.e. day-to-day milestones being missed, leading to heroic efforts to recover schedule down the road -- in the absence of strong management.