Exactly! You actually CAN have 50 people finish something 50x faster, but it takes a shitload of planning, and that equals time and money no company I have ever worked for, or even known of, would allocate to something that isn’t generating immediate income.

Take the Hoover Dam for example: Dsigned over 3 ish years and built in 5, at a time when nothing that huge had ever been made before, at less than a billion in today money, and 2 years ahead of schedule. It’s 90 years old.

IIRC the Empire State Building was built “agile”.

We’ll keep adding floors until there’s only enough money left for the roof.

Something about making things in that early 20th C. period of the USA was amazing.

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