“If you go to some other larger standards bodies, it’s quite …
“If you go to some other larger standards bodies, it’s quite normal for a standard to take five years or more,” he explains. “That’s quite commonplace. You actually have to really push to get it down to eighteen months. Our record was [twelve] months, up to now; we’ve done this one in six.”
If this statement is even remotely accurate, then this is fucking insane. They spent loads of overtime on it though. How will this affect future processes? Will others feel the pressure to squeeze something out even faster (and more buggy) than we already have now?