It's Cool To Say No To Features
The marketing guy was breathless with excitement. "This is going to be the killer feature!" he enthused. "Customers are totally clamoring for this thing, so if we can just get it into the next release, sales will skyrocket!" My role was "program manager," which in some more primitive languages is translated as, "wet blanket" or "I hate that guy." This role included owning the schedule and the feature list, so the pro…