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nicholas (3034)
Wednesday April 04, 2007
05:33 PM
"underwear on first"
Scrottie doesn't seem to be
having a good day
It reminds me of a company, where the ticket for one of the development tasks
I was assigned started "Now that we've signed the contract with
$third_party we need to work out whether it's possible to deliver
what is described in the agreement." And what do you, dear mis-management, think
I the programmer am going to do, if it turns out not to be possible? Perhaps it
would have been a good idea to ask the programmers first, before making
promises that you may not be able to keep.
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I like to use this analogy... (Score:1)
So if a biz/sales guy says we can do something, it's a "$1000 promise" or a "$100,000 promise" or a "$1,000,000 promise".
These guys know dollars. If they have to make a $100,000 promise and make the techies life hell to secure a $10,000,000 deal, so be it. Lets face it, most things are possible, they just sometimes have unbelievably large price tags on them.
Then it's just a case of having them check which promise are $100,000 promises. Which
Re: (Score:2)
If the company makes my life hell, I don't care how much money is involved (unless a lot of it will go to me as a bonus, I suppose, but that's unlikely). I'm just going to quit and get a job with nicer people.