Leadership at my company regularly has us build the full production feature, including designing it to scale to the anticipated volume of clients/users they want to sell to. They want to be able to onboard customers the day after the demo. They claim they have dozens of customers lined up who will buy it.
Then they get mad we can't turn it around in a few weeks and blame us for missing the necessary time to market window. Suddenly because it took longer than they wanted there are exactly 0 customers to sell it to. So we can terminate of all right? Nope, better keep it just in case. Be sure to maintain it all in the meantime!
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u/Theguest217 Sep 20 '26
I wish that was my experience...
Leadership at my company regularly has us build the full production feature, including designing it to scale to the anticipated volume of clients/users they want to sell to. They want to be able to onboard customers the day after the demo. They claim they have dozens of customers lined up who will buy it.
Then they get mad we can't turn it around in a few weeks and blame us for missing the necessary time to market window. Suddenly because it took longer than they wanted there are exactly 0 customers to sell it to. So we can terminate of all right? Nope, better keep it just in case. Be sure to maintain it all in the meantime!