Falcon Heavy Delays as a Burndown Chart
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Is there some benefit, some management strategy that involves operating in crisis mode indefinitely? How does management continue to be over-optimistic several times without doing the introspection to see that they're not making good estimates?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdoNQXQYv8
It was largely down to the design and requirements evolving over the years. Because the Falcon 9 itself improved and dramatically increased it's payload capacity, it became able to itself fulfil many of the missions that the Heavy was originally intended for.
The Falcon Heavy that flew yesterday was quite different to the one that was originally planned.