I'm not saying it hasn't happened before, but does it seem to you that the expectations they have of employees are higher than ever?
Deadlines are getting shorter and the pressure is getting higher. People are leaving because of it, and those who stay face even greater pressures. It's a vicious cycle.
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It’s also about efficiency.
There’s a lot of old crusty methodologies that require more work than you actually need to ship a viable product.
In the old monopoly days, there was no pressure to correct those mistakes. These still linger today and you’re seeing the competitive pressure to correct it.
what do you expect? people outside the favored clique have to do the work of the favored insiders, so of course the schedule is impossible.
A high pace of innovation is required for Intel to be relevant. The problem is that high level management is setting ambitious goals as if Intel has a recent history of delivering. Years of poor management (both high and low level) have created orgs that cannot deliver. Pat has not fixed that.
The goals might make sense at AMD or NVIDIA, but with the current amount of institutional rot in Intel leadership, it’s just setting the company up to fail harder.
The schedules for people outside the favored clique are impossible to meet because those people have to do the work for all the people inside the clique. Simple as that.
Intel has the slowest pace in the whole industry. If you spend any time talking to people at other places you’ll see how unbelievably slow Intel moves.
I'd argue that it's the inability to create realistic, or even remotely plausible, schedules.
A schedule's purpose is to predict. If it doesn't do that well then it's not the fault of the project, it's just a cr---y schedule.