Boeing's engineering resources are stretched too thin
As the 787-8 production crisis came to light from September 2007 to March 2008, senior Boeing executives consistently maintained that the company had enough engineering resources to solve that problem as well as keep other development efforts, such as the 747-8, on track.
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson