How Engineers and Managers Communicate: A Video Parody

As a parody on engineer/manager communication pitfalls that impact engineering productivity of electronics chip design, this video presents a humorous rendition of what goes on at "WonderChips". The video was originally aired at the DAC 2007 Productivity Impact Luncheon, sponsored by FSA and EDA Consortium, themed "Changing the Dialogue Between Engineers and Managers". Also discussed at the event was an MIT paper entitled "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement". If you're serious or curious about engineering productivity, watch the video and read the paper (available at http://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/CMR_Getting_Quality_v1.0.html).

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• engineer
• chip
• EDA
• manager
• schedule
• WonderChips
• wonderchip
• Jasper
• EDAC
• FSA
• Kathryn Kranen

[SteevieQ]

The moral of the story is...engineers are always right.

[dLimboStick]

This is comedy? This is reality where I work.  On reflection, I guess it IS comedy...tragic comedy.

[freedomofspeech1]

That's like the most fake and stereotypical Indian accent ever :D

[jellovendigar]

When the middle management isn't decisive and out spoken, this kind of shit always happens. The project leader should have intercepted this delay.

[prathik728]

@tnguyen318 google the word engineering

[korent1991]

this video only proves engineers are way better in managment than managers... xD

[tnguyen318]

Thats not Engineering. Thats Computer Programming.

[xingfenzhen]

@bblan26

I'll say do the medical professional (family Physician, if you can), it's something my family has push me into since I was 5, now I wish I should have listened (with my cousin finally graduating medical school) but beware of the looooong schooling and residency where it's pretty much a living hell. (though sometime engineering will do that to you too) But then may be you'll complain about dealing with insurance companies and how some people shouldn't have died...

[xingfenzhen]

that's why I don't work at large corporations... too much resources wasted at internal grinding and often the wrong decision is made due to politics. (though small companies has it's faults too, but I take the lesser of two evils)

[mintoo2cool]

sad but true ... managers r dicks

[eTiggy]

wow, this is freakily accurate! every time it's "we love the project, we are totaly for it! just one little thing: make it work with half the money, half the resources and move the deadline closer by 6 months."