This was interesting to read.<p>Apparently one of the things precipitating Rand leaving the ceo job was mismanaging a major project with an initial budget of 6-9 months and targeted release date of July &#x27;12 that slid to Oct &#x27;13 -- not only a slip of 15 months, but a very buggy release even after major feature triage.  Though Rand doesn&#x27;t say it, I&#x27;m guessing this was pretty hard on their engineering staff.<p>As an engineer who&#x27;s worked on a similar death march with a major schedule slip that turns out to have been totally unnecessary, it was nice to see some accountability passed upwards for a change.