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To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (8925)4/11/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: David Colvin  Read Replies (1) of 10072
 
Ken,

Being in and around engineering all my life I'm used to doing trade studies MTBF analyses and the like. However, my recent predictions didn't pull any punches nor have any fluff in them. After all is said and done, they are exactly what I think Iomega will do over the next two years (no more and no less) and represent the bar on which and I will grade myself......those and only those predictions. Only a situation in which new information surfaces which I know would throw my numbers way off would cause me to make any "tweaks" to my predictions.

I'm used to sitting down and laying out detail schedules (including supporting staffing requirements) involving over 60 engineering departments over 4 to 5 year periods for new aircraft development programs. Once the schedule was "baselined", we were measured via a process called C/SCS against the "baseline" which (per government procedures) we could never change without a contract change. Bottom line.....I'm used to making such definitive predictions with no qualifying conditions.

If I'm wrong, then I will have learned something from the experience. It certainly won't be the first time I was wrong about something....so what?

There is a saying "there comes a time when you have to kill the engineers to start production" because they will "what if" things to death as long as you let them......it's in their nature. *g*

Dave
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