Yes… you’re reading the title right! Seems we hardware developers spend more of our time planning for failure than we do for success!
How, you might be asking yourself, could I make such an outlandish claim?
Well, Catherine Louis and I have started analyzing data from the project planning survey we did last year and the data appear to support that conclusion. The results aren’t pretty, but they certainly are interesting :)!
Last week we began sharing our analysis in an EETimes article called Planning to Fail is Planning to Fail. In that article, we look at the first few data points that we found most telling. One that sticks out to us is that 87% of the people polled see their projects finishing behind schedule; another is that only half of respondents are confident in their approach to project planning. There’s other data in there that we think is compelling enough to support the idea hardware developers are stuck in a rut that ends in failure relative to what they plan for. Continue reading →