“There have been significant leadership changes in Lockheed Martin over the last few months, all the way up and down the F-35 chain,” he said. “The deputy program manager, the program manager, the president of Lockheed Martin Aero, and the CEO have all changed out. I would tell you that those four individuals in those positions now have a different culture and a different attitude than when I first walked in on this program nine months ago. That is a good thing.”
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Bogdan banks on LM leadership change to help keep his program going
Bogdan says this is a good thing:
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Well, the prior leadership team got us to where we are today, so it has to be better.
This is one of the classic fallacies of management: that swapping out managers can rescue any failing initiative.
It's not true. Fundamentally flawed undertakings cannot be fixed, by definition.
The F-35, for example, is backed into a corner on weight. The remaining weight budget is tiny. Yet there are many issues revealed by flight testing, such as structural cracking and tailhook relocation, which will inevitably entail considerable increases in weight. Too much to fit into the remaining allowance. Something's gotta give. But nothing can.
This stuff is physics. No matter how artful the program manager, physical law will not bend to accommodate their wishes.
Even the entirely virtual area of flight vehicle software faces limits which do not admit of easy managerial adjustment.
LockMart, for example, promise that they will solve the slipping software schedule by hiring more engineers.
It's as though Fred Brooks and _The Mythical Man-Month_ never existed. They're demonstrating a complete ignorance of Brooks's dictum that adding headcount to a late software project invariably makes it even more late.
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