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"For years, we prioritized the movement of the airplane through the factory over getting it done right, and that's got to change," CFO Brian West said last week.

Um...so, why did you do that? As CFO, that was undoubtedly due to policies you pushed. So why aren't you taking your hat and leaving?

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I don't think a CFO has any role in pushing policies.

Why not? We saw from internal Google emails that sales had the ability to stop engineering in order to push more ad sales at the detriment of the product.

Why would Boeing, or anyone else, be different?

Sales can’t do that. The leadership where sales and engineering meet has to make that call. Sales may ask for it, but typically sales doesn’t drive engineering, although they usually have a lot of influence. But engineering needs to be able to explain the risk.

Of course it’s leadership that makes the call. At any large company sales and marketing have a huge influence on the leadership and therefore the product. The engineering teams that align with those goals will get the best funding and will be listened to the most.

Where is that quote from?

... the article

Thanks. I thought the whole paragraph was so i was looking for the term “CFO”, but it’s actually the quote itself that’s in the article.

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