Vinay Chavan - Engineering Management & Leadership

What was actually broken?

Nothing dramatic. That’s the point. People were late. Deadlines slipped. Commitments made in one meeting quietly didn’t survive to the next. Nobody was incompetent and nobody was malicious – the work was getting done, mostly, eventually, and the shortfall in each individual case was small enough to absorb. That’s exactly what makes it hard to fix. There’s no crisis to point at.

Would I do it again?

Every time. I’d rather give you a more qualified answer than that, because unqualified endorsements are easy to write and easy to ignore. So here is the qualification: I’d change how it was specified, not whether we did it. The IPL1 threshold needed to be written properly. “Proven ability” needed observable behaviors attached to every instance of it.