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Re: Architecture - the missing link between sales and delivery?

Comment from Anonymous on 03 February 2007 00:59:27 GMT #

While sales is a channel for customer requests, sales can also be a commitment source that causes scope problems, and if sales has too much visability into the next release, they will sell it, which would be fine if the schedule is met, and not fine when the schedule isn't.

In one company, sales was so busy selling the next release that they didn't sell the current one. Cash flow problems insued. And, the next release kept on slipping.

Somebody has to be the gate between sales an dev. I'm not certain it is within the scope of the architect. Of course, architects want to expand their jobs, so ...

Re: Architecture - the missing link between sales and delivery?

Comment from Anonymous on 10 September 2010 08:47:02 BST #

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