If you want to talk to your spouse about the possibility of taking the kids to get ice cream or whether the dog has had a treat today you have to speak in code that the short mammals can't understand, otherwise you've all but promised it to them and have to deal with the consequences.
The problem is that for salespeople and business devs, the consequences of putting a bad idea in front of impressionable ears are too abstract and so they never learn. So they put an idea in front of a customer or the board about how they can make a shitload of money and the imaginary check has been cashed even before they've stopped for air.
Without some tough love these problems will be with us forever. Oh, you're going to have to walk back something you said? You'll be embarrased? Too fucking bad. Maybe next time you'll think before you promise someone $500k of work for $250k minus your bonus. Twist in the wind like you deserve.
So someone has sold an idea of making millions and once the engineers or just plain human beings get ahold of it that looks like $200k and a giant pain in everyone's ass. And everyone jumps straight from denial to bargaining with a little detour to anger to yell at the messengers for breaking your shiny dream... that you are not and were never entitled to.
If you want to talk to your spouse about the possibility of taking the kids to get ice cream or whether the dog has had a treat today you have to speak in code that the short mammals can't understand, otherwise you've all but promised it to them and have to deal with the consequences.
The problem is that for salespeople and business devs, the consequences of putting a bad idea in front of impressionable ears are too abstract and so they never learn. So they put an idea in front of a customer or the board about how they can make a shitload of money and the imaginary check has been cashed even before they've stopped for air.
Without some tough love these problems will be with us forever. Oh, you're going to have to walk back something you said? You'll be embarrased? Too fucking bad. Maybe next time you'll think before you promise someone $500k of work for $250k minus your bonus. Twist in the wind like you deserve.
So someone has sold an idea of making millions and once the engineers or just plain human beings get ahold of it that looks like $200k and a giant pain in everyone's ass. And everyone jumps straight from denial to bargaining with a little detour to anger to yell at the messengers for breaking your shiny dream... that you are not and were never entitled to.