Well, project management should include proper buffers for some circumstances, but it can't for all.Jef Patat wrote: That sounds like chicken project management. Project management in R&D counts for mishaps. They admitted not of the size of pre season testing and then what? They can do a lot about it, throw more resources at it, shift resources, start working on stuff that you'd normally start only after certain verification, be more aggressive. How can we assess all that? It's an evolving process for sure, but you don't change the long term goals that quickly, we've only had three races.
This is what you have a weighted risk log for, which result you include in your project plan.
Yes, you may be able to shift resources (did/do they have adequate resources to shift? Warm bodies is not enough in this new and highly competitive environment) and take some risks - but who is to say that Honda has not already eaten up all their risk buffer during the winter?
To my mind it looks like it, because e.g. I simply can't comprehend that something basic like a weak seal could not have been pre-tested before. I always read that Honda has something about 30 Dynos and all of them high-tech and everything, so how could they miss this?
This means to me that Honda thought they made more progress than it actually was, surprising them.
Not willing to opt out of it, they will accept a loss in 2015. However, their goal must be to minimize the loss. Get to the podium must be Honda's ultimate goal for 2015.
We all know - while the Honda PU may not lack power, it lacks reliability. Yet.
But by around Spielberg, they will have run out of officially allowed engines, forcing them to accept penalties, making it so much harder to shine and get to the podium.
