Look at the books "Have Fun at Work" and "Friends in High Places" by Livingston. The confusion you describe reflects the difficulty of getting everyone to pull in the same direction when you are trying to do something that is too complex for one person to do.
Livingston's Friends in High Places is a sequel to Have Fun at Work. I think it's a bit more positive in outlook but it has a chilling description of the scariest way high-tech projects go wrong... By approaching an asymptote. When your…
…approaching an asymptote (say 97% done) where you keep working harder and harder to get to 94%, 95%, 95.5% and never quite get there because of a structural inadequacy of your plan. Livingston's book "Friends in High Places" has the best account of this I've seen https://www.abebooks.com/9780937063064/Friends-High-Places-L...
出于好奇，你看过这些其他作品吗？《预防设计》（Design for Prevention，2010）ISBN 978-0-937063-05-7、《高处有朋友》（Friends in High Places，1990）ISBN 937063-06-1、《乐在工作》（Have Fun at Work，1988）ISBN 0-937063-05-3、《新瘟疫》（The New Plague，1986）ISBN 0-937063-03-7。前三本书里都提到了 POSIWID 原则；工程师威廉·L·利文斯顿（William L. Livingston）撰写了……
Out of curiosity, have you checked out these other works? Design for Prevention (2010) ISBN 978-0-937063-05-7 Friends in High Places (1990) ISBN 937063-06-1 Have Fun at Work (1988) ISBN 0-937063-05-3 The New Plague (1986) ISBN 0-937063-03-7 POSIWID is mentioned in the first three works; engineer William L. Livingston authored the…
可以参考利文斯顿（Livingston）写的《乐在工作》（Have Fun At Work）和《高处有朋友》（Friends in High Places）。
See Livingston’s Have Fun At Work and Friends in High Places.
去读读利文斯顿写的《乐在工作》和《高处有朋友》这两本书吧。你描述的那种混乱局面，正好反映了当你想做一件过于复杂、绝非一人之力所能完成的事情时，要把所有人拧成一股绳有多困难。
Look at the books "Have Fun at Work" and "Friends in High Places" by Livingston. The confusion you describe reflects the difficulty of getting everyone to pull in the same direction when you are trying to do something that is too complex for one person to do.
利文斯顿的《高处有朋友》是《乐在工作》的续作。我觉得这本书的心态稍微乐观了一些，但它对高科技项目最可怕的失控方式给出了令人不寒而栗的描述……那就是逼近渐近线。当你的……
Livingston's Friends in High Places is a sequel to Have Fun at Work. I think it's a bit more positive in outlook but it has a chilling description of the scariest way high-tech projects go wrong... By approaching an asymptote. When your…
……逼近渐近线（比如进度到了 97%），你拼了命地加班加点，进度却只能从 94%、95% 挪到 95.5%，并且由于方案本身存在结构性缺陷，你永远也到不了 100%。利文斯顿的书《高处有朋友》对这种情况的剖析是我见过最到位的：https://www.abebooks.com/9780937063064/Friends-High-Places-L...
…approaching an asymptote (say 97% done) where you keep working harder and harder to get to 94%, 95%, 95.5% and never quite get there because of a structural inadequacy of your plan. Livingston's book "Friends in High Places" has the best account of this I've seen https://www.abebooks.com/9780937063064/Friends-High-Places-L...
出于好奇，你看过这些其他作品吗？《预防设计》（Design for Prevention，2010）ISBN 978-0-937063-05-7、《高处有朋友》（Friends in High Places，1990）ISBN 937063-06-1、《乐在工作》（Have Fun at Work，1988）ISBN 0-937063-05-3、《新瘟疫》（The New Plague，1986）ISBN 0-937063-03-7。前三本书里都提到了 POSIWID 原则；工程师威廉·L·利文斯顿（William L. Livingston）撰写了……
Out of curiosity, have you checked out these other works? Design for Prevention (2010) ISBN 978-0-937063-05-7 Friends in High Places (1990) ISBN 937063-06-1 Have Fun at Work (1988) ISBN 0-937063-05-3 The New Plague (1986) ISBN 0-937063-03-7 POSIWID is mentioned in the first three works; engineer William L. Livingston authored the…
这两本书分别是《乐在工作》和《高处有朋友》，作者都是威廉·L·利文斯顿（William L. Livingston）。
The books are "Have Fun at Work" and "Friends in High Places," both by William L. Livingston