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>> ...so all the departments are trying to beat each other and hence
>> working aginst each other, rather than working together towards a
>> common goal?
>
> Not only that, but seemingly horizontal communication to different
> departments is actively discouraged in Japanese culture - so you end up
> having to go up several layers of management and then back down another
> part of the tree to get an answer. And it's not as if managers are
> really that interested in (or have time for) the discussion of detail
> design. So as you can imagine, each department is quite isolated.
That is utterly clustered. o_O
> The customer will have at least asked for some minimum set of
> parameters, like brightness, contrast etc. So the major design
> decisions are based on this. Usually however they will ask for much
> more detail, often running into hundreds of pages with references to
> thousands more pages in other documents.
Heh, yeah. The spec for our project DB system was "we need a project DB
system". So some kid who's not even a company employee went and sat in a
darkened room and came up with some VB thing that he thought was pretty
cool.
4 years later, we're still using it. WTF?
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