Later in my construction career, schedules were required on TxDot projects, had to be in a format that conveniently allowed a software company to make money, and required someone to be paid to assemble the schedule. None were extremely accurate, most were impossibly optimistic, and the only people I found that were impressed were those that created the schedules, or were being paid to update the wish list.
I don't like construction schedules. They take away resources better used for increasing the black ink summaries at the bottom of the leger, and take give bureaucrats more ammunition to snipe at contractors, when weather events cause delays. A good project manager has the information needed to complete a project in the shortest period of time, and doesn't need bean counters, or bureaucrats, to remind them of how those that push the paper are generally ignorant of the really important things. Schedules don't replace experience, or knowledge. They only give paper pushers more paper to push back and forth across their desks as they spend most of their time surfing the internet.
If you think the "regulatory burden" for construction is bad try working in healthcare.... Clinical employees, the ones who actually care for patients, spend MORE time doing "charting" and other crap than they spend actually with patients.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, while I was in the hospital with my ex-wife, I observed a nurse that I can only describe as exceptional. He spent much of his time in front of a computer, documenting whatever was required, and all I could think of was how much of it was really that important, or just another attempt to satisfy some bureaucrat, or keep the ambulance chasers away. It seemed a shame his valuable time, and the money spent for his expertise, was possibly being wasted to achieve a piece of paper for someone that had no real purpose.
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Much of what we "experts" are forced to do is mandated by people too stupid to come in out of the rain. It's terrifying when you fully understand how bad the regulatory regime has become.
DeleteWait until they involve A.I.
ReplyDeleteAI will be a ruthless extension of abysmal stupidity.
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