> “Pushing sales people to increase their amount of sales/quota is like asking meteorologists for sunshine”.
Not really, because those are not estimates. Also, consequences are different. With programmers, consequence is typically very buggy and hard to maintain software.
With sales, the consequence is a lot of fraud, followed by firing of every who is not comiting fraud and then even more fraud.
You forgot elk dinners at nice restaurants! I'll never forget when CA threw everyone parties to celebrate the sale of software the company couldn't use.
P.S. Not really, you covered it nicely under fraud
Not really, because those are not estimates. Also, consequences are different. With programmers, consequence is typically very buggy and hard to maintain software.
With sales, the consequence is a lot of fraud, followed by firing of every who is not comiting fraud and then even more fraud.