On 11/14/2011 11:00, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Daft thing is, I imagine time and again it plays out like this:

Nah. It's more like the salesman tries to sell something to the customer. 
The customer doesn't want it, but either the salesman can't convince the 
customer or won't leave the customer alone. So the customer says "I'll buy 
it if you have this [9-month-feature] ready next month." And of course the 
salesman promises it.

Salesman comes back and asks for it. Even *if* you pull off the amazing 
impossible, the salesman goes back to the customer, who *still* doesn't want 
the product, and the dev team is of course "spinning their wheels working on 
useless features."

I can't tell you the number of times I worked on urgent rush features that 
never ever got used.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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