More On Boeing's Dysfunctional Development Culture

During the last year, I've published seve6ral posts and linked to several articles about Boeing and the 737 MAX disaster. Taken together, they reveal a company that's in serious trouble on a number of fronts, including their Starliner spaceship that suffered several software glitches on a recent test flight.

Now, Gregory Tavis, a writer and pilot, has published another long article that dives deep into Boeing's flawed development culture. He doesn't think that Boeing can recover from the mess its in.

Recent headlines speak in vague terms about Boeing’s inability to get the two autopilots communicating on “boot up.”  Forensically, what that means is that Boeing has made an attempt to create a functional electronic corpus collosum between the two, so that the one in charge can access the sensors of the one not in charge (see “One little problem…,” above).

And it has failed in that attempt.

Which, if you understand where Boeing the company is now, is not at all surprising.  Not surprising, either, is Boeing’s recent revelation that re-certification of the 737 MAX is pushed back to “mid-year” 2020.  Applying a healthy function to Boeing’s public relations prognostications that is accurately translated as “never.”

For it was never realistic to believe that a blindered, incompetent, empathy-desert like Boeing, which had killed nearly four hundred already, was able to learn from, much less fix, its mistakes.