What are the best examples of group (especially large group) projects conducted extraordinarily quickly? P-80 Shooting Star, Celera & HGP, initial development of radar, maybe "Please Please Me" and "Led Zeppelin" albums...pic.twitter.com/lUlvATp5zA
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The movie business reliably completes projects of $100M / 1000 people under a year. Underrated as an example for software project management.
Especially Steven Soderbergh...
Empire State Building was built in barely over a year
Was designed in under 2 weeks and nothing like it had ever been built before!
The colosseum was built in 8 years imagine anything of that craftsmanship being built in such a time nowadays bureaucracy at its finest
Ajanta Ellora Caves & the Kailasha Temple in India. Far more intricate. Single block of granite - Carved out of a Mountain with literally astronomical precision.
I just wiki'd what you said they look unbelievable there will never be anything built like them again !
the GGB story is one Thiel uses to demonstrate we may stagnate as a nation. hard to argue with.
Being fair, 09 construction was non-trivial and had post-recession financing issues. Original had similar problems spanning ~2 decades. Only happened when founder of BoA stepped in to finance “for the community”. Why much in SF bears the Giannini name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Giannini …
But people died building the Golden Gate Bridge
Almost all in a single accident, near completion, that the safety netting (an innovation for the time) could not fully prevent. A tragedy but it didn't happen because they were in a hurry.
Regulatory barriers.
has far more to do with the fact that people are driving on that road every day, whereas nobody drove on the bridge while it was being built
Roads and bridges in use around the world don't take 8 yrs to modify. Something different in California. Highways generally in the state take longer than rest of nation and cost more per mile than similar elsewhere. Hwy 85 was a shit show
The Empire State Building. Less than 14 months. Just remarkable!! That was in 1930..
To be fair, buildings were a lot simpler in those days. Building the exoskeleton is still very fast.
Repair efforts in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake mobilized several hundred thousand people and, while revitalization is a long-term project, some of them hit timelines that seem miraculous. A photo I'll never forget: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369307/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Road-repaired-SIX-days-destroyed.html … (Widely reported at time.)
I was about to suggest that perhaps greenfield development is always easier and faster than sustaining development but... maybe not. Wow
You can imagine the conversations: “I can’t get concrete because the road behind me is out. We’re breaking half of our safety protocols. Two teams pulling three shifts on one off.” “Yeah but we need this road for relief supplies.” “I didn’t say I was slipping the schedule did I?”
You'd know better than I, but I'd actually be a little surprised if they violated their safety protocols—from what I understand of Japanese engineering culture (eg. the Fukushima response) I hear a bone-deep understanding that that's a false economy
I think there were a lot of conversations that month of the general flavor : “Protocol requires that we have two people doing nothing but watching for oncoming traffic.” “Where are those two people and where is the oncoming traffic? Building #*{*#+ing roads and waiting for them”
HAHA that's a fair point. Goes to the point the safety engineering folks make about humans being the adaptable part of any complex system—we know we can relax these constraints in an emergency because we have a really good mental model of the system
(IIRC Fukushima e.g. kept running shifts as normal even as things were breaking down, as was safety policy, in order to minimize any one person's radiation exposure)
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