That's interesting. Do you let your whole extended family use your account, distorting Google's Skynet's model of you? You shouldn't do that, their business model depends on having a digital clone of everyone! It's probably even against their ToU.

I think the same amount of truth can be found in:
"If you see useless people all around, you're own usefulness demands scrutiny."

To be fair, they're working on it, trying new stuff. Holacracy, various attempts at being "agile".. Not all of them are working out, but trial and error is the only thing they can do.

It is true of course that in traditional hierarchal organizations blame goes up, making management responsible. But as you said, that is an industry wide phenomena, so the (widely acknowledged, also by managers) problem has to be deeper. For example, Holacracy (which I only learned about yesterday, so my information on that is sketchy at best) tries to address the issue on the organizational structure, trying to fix the problem on that level. Could work, who knows.

My point is that managers can't do their jobs without the metrics you already mentioned, and the evidence suggests they cannot get those on their own. Research might help, otherwise we could end up in an endless loop of trial and error ("maybe this time it works out!"). I don't know if there is anything being done in academia, but it would seem to make sense.

No Man's Sky has still to see the light of day, Star Citizen is a giant cash cow even before release, with in my opinion no hope of matching the massive expectations. Robertson is probably better off to never release it and when the virtual star ship market runs dry, retire to some private island.

Refreshingly nuanced comment, taking the blame from the whipping boy marketing. But then you're saying management is to blame, while at the same time acknowledging that they don't have the tools to do their job correctly.

Useless VPs? I have yet to meet such a person. On the other hand, I have met a lot of engineers who seemed to feel they understood the whole world and everything within it, and considered management to a useless waste of time and money. Those were usually the ones who needed management the most, as they were completely oblivious to business considerations - which in the end puts food on their tables.

First off, it's not a either the software or the sysadmins. Lots of things can break in between, I suppose that's especially true when there are strict processes in place, as I imagine the workings of an airline company.
That said, I've worked with Atlassian products (lots of Jira, Confluence, and Fisheye, but only a little Stash), and while I'm not a big fan (I find them bloated), I can't complain about their stability. Our admin team wasn't especially large, one could say understaffed, so I doubt they could afford to invest much time into its maintenance.

I'm not talking about a whole tool, "just" an interface. Still, it'll be more than 99, definitely.

Ah, troll mods roaming freely. Think nothing of it.

Okay, Testlog looks like an awful proprietary Windows-native tool. But if you can find a TCM with your required feature set and a documented API, it shouldn't be too big of a deal to make an own Jira plugin that interacts with that hypothetical TCM.
Maybe Testrail has those features?

Watches have been at least in large parts fashion accessory for a while now, their convenience factor not necessarily being what sells them. Especially their upscale incarnations. From what I know of Apple's watch, the convenience takes even more of a backseat with its short battery life and very high price.

That really leaves this to be something primarily used by rich people to show off their wealth, like for example Rolex watches. Maybe unluckily for Apple, Rolex watches probably do last multiple generations, while, as you said, Apple's watch will be outdated much quicker than that.

You don't strike me as part of their target audience. So, why would they care?

I agree, they're really following up on this "cater to the rich guys" business model. Though even though I like some of Apple's products, part of me would really like to see this product to fail. Bring Apple back from being a fashion accessory to a tech company.

While I agree that this character assassination, especially with the guy's last name included and therefore the whole family involved, is not a good sign for the general journalistic integrity.

However, you are forgetting another crucial piece of evidence, the descent rate, which we have from radar data. It seems to be consensus on every source I read, that the very smooth descend rate must be autopilot controlled, and setting the autopilot's target altitude is pretty involved, and must be done intentionally.

That said, yes, they were very fast with laying the blame on the co-pilot. Disturbingly so. Let's hope the investigation will actually continue, though the plane was disintegrated, and the they're even publicly saying that the second recorder might never be found.

That relies on using exactly the same tools for the entire build chain. Which might be hard or impossible to get, and of course also need to be trusted.