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Sunday, December 22, 2024 |
Engineers and Managers   
Date: Sent Monday, August 28, 2023
Category: None | Rating: 3.81/5 (125 votes)
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A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer, and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a steep
mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers,
until it miraculously ground to a halt, scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck
halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?
"I know," said the Departmental Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process
of Continuous Improvement, find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."
"No, no," said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife
with me, and in no time at all, I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
"Well," said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
Received from Thomas Ellsworth.
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