Re: Manglers
>Free clue... IBM has been in a death spiral because of this.
That's the beauty of business software development -- when the project falls in a heap you can Powerpoint your way out of trouble or even to a new even more lucrative contract. Your business might shrink but the upper echelons should be able to keep their jobs, pay and bonuses until the very end.
When you make things like planes the result of a project screw up can be a flaming pile of wreckage. Its difficult to talk your way out of this, even if you do have a close relationships with government and regulators. (See....
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-22/boeing-737-max-latest-friends-in-high-places
Biting the hand that feeds IT
