Had this on Friday.
- Boss: Have we hit the milestone?
- Me: No, our performance is low and we don’t know why? We need to analyse it.
- Boss: …but we’ve done what we said we’d do. We shouldn’t beat ourselves up over some metric. I think we’ve should say we’ve made it.
Net result is that we’ve pushed a major problem into the next phase without giving ourselves more time to do anything about it. …and people wonder why projects are “late” at the last moment.
Decent is far more 3D than Quake in that it’s play area goes in all directions. However I think it gets overlooked because I think it owes as much to flight sims, and those have been 3D for a very long time.