more finger pointing about Vista

Some of the things I have written about in the past have been about software failure. It should be no surprise then that I am linking to this detailed post about the Windows Vista slippage and the circumstances that the poster claims to have made the “largest software project ever” becoming “also the longest”:

They knew months in advance that the schedule would never work. So they told their VP. And he, possibly influenced by one too many instances where engineering re-routes power to the warp core, thus completing the heretofore impossible six-hour task in a mere three, summarily sent the managers back to “figure out how to make it work.” The managers re-estimated, nipped and tucked, liposuctioned, did everything short of a lobotomy ? and still did not have a schedule that fit. The VP was not pleased. “You?re smart people. Find a way!” This went back and forth for weeks, whereupon the intrepid managers finally understood how to get past the dilemma. They simply stopped telling the truth.