
158 • Program Management in Defense and High Tech Environments
for days at a time, missing valuable time with their families. Good teamwork
and fellowship surfaced, with engineers who were between family events,
lling in for those whose children were having birthdays or important little
league games. Nonetheless it was grueling. Furthermore, in preproduction
testing, seeing your designs challenged by extremes of temperature and
humidity is really stressful! Of course, not everything went smoothly—
test equipment went out of calibration, shock table availability windows
were exceeded and tests were delayed, and test tool failures needed to be ...