I work in transport sector and we have both types of products. The lack from of communication even surrounds upgrades to existing products although I often think part of the lack of communication is down to the uncertainties of some research aspects of the projects. I came in for a theoretical 1 year project and it's still not gone to market nearly 3 years later - had I not come in they would still be arguing on what approach to take. You do stuff that's never been done before you don't know what you are going to encounter. Even the signing of contracts can take forever.

People talk about how great Roon is openness wise, but they probably won't realise how many iterations there was between Sooloos 2 and what ultimately became Roon. I note on Roon forum how long Chromecast support has been coming. Not sure what's worse - an invisible roadmap or one that is long and wide. I guess former is worse until someone adds something to latter roadmap and then things change or problems encountered - both of which are ok to happen but some are as intolerant of as much as those seeing no roadmap at all.

Having come from broadcast and financial background where most deadlines were set in stone. I found it really hard to get use to working in research where they almost have projects to run projects such that everything is so fluid with no hard and fast dates to meet other than those you set yourself.

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