Am 01.02.2014 20:51, schrieb Francois Labreque:
> Le 2014-02-01 12:42, clipka a écrit :
>> Am 01.02.2014 10:34, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
>>>>>> Whoever asked you the question has got a bright future in Senior
>>>>>> Management.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd rather guess they already have a bright /history/ in Senior
>>>>> Management...
>>>>
>>>> Well, some sort of history. ;)
>>>
>>> Yes, this is a question direct from our MD, so...
>>>
>>> We quite often asks us what features we *don't* have. There's a logic
>>> there - whatever feature we don't have, that's probably what we want to
>>> go implement next. Except... this set is extremely poorly defined!
>>
>> Sounds more like the sales department is poorly "defined". Shouldn't
>> they keep an eye open to what customers are asking for, and what the
>> competitors are offering?
>>
> Yes, but they're not technical enough to understand that mumbo jumbo, so
> they're asking the techies, in this case, Andy and his team.

That's obviously a false assumption.

If it was just about not understanding mumbo jumbo, they'd ask the 
developers to implement mumbo jumbo by next thursday with a budget of 42 
man-hours, because that's what they've already sold.

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