Re: [802SEC] Fwd: Grand Opening !! Visit the New IEEE Standards Store
Geoff -
I agree. Given the comments from you and Pat, I was just a tad surprised to
see this announcement.
Regards,
Tony
On 3 May 2011 14:36, Geoff Thompson <thompson@ieee.org> wrote:
> I believe that a "Grand Opening" announcement is premature given the level
> of problems that have been identified and communicated to staff in:
> - The inappropriate sorting of product by the searches
> - Deficiencies in titling and dating of documents
> - Mixing of obsolete goods with the "up front" inventory
> - And more
> As far as I can tell, none of these problems have been fixed.
> If this were a bricks and mortar store this would be equivalent to having
> the grand opening as soon as the truck unloaded all the boxes of inventory
> into the building.
>
> As closely as I can tell, this project either (a) did not have appropriate
> "go to market" testing criteria, (b) did not have the appropriate testers,
> (c) management incorrectly decided (based on bad or insufficient
> information) that the current state was good enough or (d) the "go to
> market" decision was based on schedule instead of the state of the product.
> All of us who have spent our careers in product development know that each
> of these is a bad idea.
>
> Geoff Thompson
>
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