And Jody is the General Manager. Unfortunately, in small organisations job titles often bear little resemblance to actual areas of competence or responsibility. Josh is clearly not the project leader and he appears to be getting much of his information second-hand. Jody's last blog post was ridiculous coming from a General Manager.
If Josh doesnt know, he should keep his mouth shut and stop making bold claims and promises he cant keep. Not too mentions bets he will lose.
But more importantly, its his damn job to know or find out.
What are they paying him for otherwise? And remember, you are paying him.
As for Jody, she promised shipment in June or something, didnt she? I wouldnt be too surprised if she turned out to be correct.
There needs to be one person giving updates and that person needs to be someone who actually knows what the fuck is going on rather than someone who's been cast in the role of community liaison because they run a mining pool and can "relate" to miners. If Josh is going to be given that role, then the project lead needs to be giving him regular, accurate information about where things are at rather than Josh always chasing information. I don't get the impression that Josh is the one setting deadlines at all. My impression is that he makes extrapolations based on the information given to him by others and has little direct control over anything.
Honestly, Josh seems to be acting like I did on my first job 15 years ago, when my idea of project management was acting as a go between between developers and customers, sugar coating the bad news to the customer, giving it to him little by little, begging the devs to hurry up and never see a delay coming until after it had happened. I had no clue what I was doing, and I failed to realize the devs were acting to me just the same way i was acting towards the customer, and no one was really managing anything. The only thing i managed was customer frustration and it definitely was my fault that neither I or my customer had a realistic view throughout the project. Project management is all about
managing risks. You cant manage a bloody thing if you cant even identify the risks. This is all the more important if you are subcontracting most things out and have no direct control over it.
It's quite odd given that the original plan was for Josh to personally walk the chips through all the remaining steps once they left the fab, but perhaps that plan was more something which Josh hoped to do rather than something which was actually approved. I'm not sure how you can oversee a technical project if you don't know - for instance - that blank alignment wafers even exist and that not having one will slow down the bumping process.
Exactly. Now Im not an electrical engineer either, but im not sure how he expects chips and PCBs to be fully tested and qualified the very same day they might arrive at the testing facility.
My perception is that it's easy for the people who are actually responsible to hide behind Josh
Josh is actually responsible. He may not be able to speed up anything, and whatever he does, maybe there wont even be a single shipped asic until summer and
that might not be his fault, but its his fault for not knowing this and keep failing to deliver on his promises.