Arrrggghhh! I know a certain Chief Engineer is who is trying to get ready for a Critical Design Review -- he is doing this by working on the UI for the information that will satisfy the CDR checklist. Of course, we don't have much of a checklist. Or any POCs assigned for any KPPs. And no thought has gone into what sort of objective evidence that would be used to satisfy the checklist. But golly, we're going to have an awesome UI!! Of course, the problem there is that there are no requirements for the UI and although he has viewed 4 prototypes of the UI, his constructive feedback so far has amounted to: "I don't like this one either."
The guy wants to paint his house before he builds his house, and he can't even decide on the color of the paint. But he's a GS-15, so he's basically God.
I assume that POC is Proof of Concept, but what’s KPP? (And CDR?)