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The key point: major changes were made: 1. Very late in the design process 2. After construction had started (!) I mean, politicians or not, the moment you s
by allengeorge 7y ago
The key point: major changes were made:
1. Very late in the design process
2. After construction had started (!)
I mean, politicians or not, the moment you start making major changes during buildout you’re going to have problems, regardless of what you’re building.
- consp 7y agoYou describe with this every big government software project as well.
- mrich 7y agoYou can remove government from that sentence.
- paulddraper 7y ago> One simple problem, bizarrely enough, was the airport architect, Meinhard von Gerkan's dislike of shopping. > Joel Dullroy, a Berlin-based journalist with Radio Spaetkauf, who produced a podcast telling this airport's story, says Mr Gerkan wrote disdainfully about passengers "dragging around unwanted bottles of whisky like a beggar" and wanted to have as few airport shops as possible. > But when the airport company realised this - very late in the day - it insisted on adding whole new floors of shopping into the design, as the company now makes up to 50% of its revenue from retail. Yeah, that's gonna do it.
- tomglynch 7y agoThe should have just followed AGILE methodology.