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Other Stuff => Video Clips => Topic started by: tubenit on May 01, 2014, 08:23:53 am
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http://news.dice.com/2014/04/04/hilarious-video-business-meetings-lone-engineer/ (http://news.dice.com/2014/04/04/hilarious-video-business-meetings-lone-engineer/)
My son does research and design in electrical engineering. So, in light of that fact & what I know about his work environment (at times), I found this to be an extremely funny video.
:l2: :l2:
Jeff
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For an engineer to do his/her job, someone needs to set goals that are specific and measurable. Without a final desired goal with characteristics that are specific and measurable, the engineer cannot be sure to deliver what is wanted.
The common problem is a vague goal without specific or measurable criteria, when the customer doesn't know enough about what they want to clearly define it. So the engineer wastes a lot of time and money delivering a product that's not wanted. "No, that's not it. I'll know it when I see it..."
BTW... I've never been on a project with vague or ill-defined goals, or with changing criteria for success. :l2:
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OMG! I cant tell you how many meetings I've been in like that - back in my previous life! Trying to explain a problem and the people in charge want to talk about kittens and balloons! Or passing on it completely because I was the "expert". What a great snapshot of corporate life with examples of: thinking outside the box, shifting our paradime, looking at it from 30,000 feet, empowering, team concept, etc., etc.....
At a previous job we did a lot of aerospace work for (then) McDonnell Douglas. I was given plans to build a new design for an F15 black box made out of titanium. It was a simple square. Looking at the plans I noticed that the way it was designed the panels interlocked. It was a very strong design, but only 5 panels could be assembled at a time. It was a "which comes first, the chicken or the egg" conundrum because of the way the panels interlocked. After being cussed out by the designer (I'm serious!), we finally had a meeting with the designer and a crew of 6 avionics "stupidvisors" to figure out what to do.... I had to field questions and statements like: "why don't you put the final panel on first, then it will not be the last" "you are not seeing it the way the CAD program is showing it" "if you make it like the plans show, it will work" "can't you manufacture it all together, then we will not have an assembly problem" (I gently told them that they would have a hard time putting the guts in the black box if we manufactured it "all together"). No wonder they had to sell out to Boeing....
Jim
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Good one
reminds me of Monte Python type sketches
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It is very Monty Pythonish which I thought was a comedy show that did a great job of mirroring real life. :icon_biggrin:
Seriously, I am big Monty Python fan and John Cleese is my favorite comedian. Fawlty Towers is my all time favourite comedy show.
Jeff
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I have the whole Monte Python TV series on DVD and Faulty Towers.
Have to get them out and watch again
This sketch is the one that reminded me of the video above
Monty Python Royal Society for Putting Things on top of other Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M)