Comments on: A Parable on Fake Release Dates

By: S@L

S@L — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:08:01 +0000

At another company (where I worked with the gals from the Business Women's Finishing School, btw), we used to pretend to tell customers that the next release was coming in Junetober, or Augtember, and sometimes Jangust. Hours of snarky fun, I tell you.

At my current company, the engineers don't believe in roadmaps. Think about that for a moment. Seriously, just think about that...

By: Tom Grant

Tom Grant — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:35:55 +0000

Worse, the fake release dates make it harder for the rest of the company to prepare for the release, since no one knows when it’s worth scheduling the sales training, web site updates, tech support training, etc. So you release a product, and six months later, the salespeople are still figuring out how to sell it, the tech support people are still struggling to support it…