The politics of productivity
March 30, 2011
Politics and productivity seem to go hand-in-hand in semiconductor R&D organizations. Perhaps it's natural. No manager or project team wants the low productivity Scarlet Letter. So it's hardly surprising that ostensibly poor performers use politics to avoid scrutiny.
But are these so-called low productivity projects really poor performers? In fact, many are not. Quite the opposite in fact—they often have high productivity (although insufficient throughput) but are mistakenly pigeonholed because their crime was a missed schedule. Moreover, schedule overrun usually is not due to low productivity.
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