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The situation is not hopeless, the team hasn't been laid off and you've been warned about what's going on. What the company needs is at least one champion among
by twunde 9y ago
The situation is not hopeless, the team hasn't been laid off and you've been warned about what's going on. What the company needs is at least one champion among the board members. This means you need to start pitching now. Talk to the project's sponsors, make sure they're actively reaching out to their bosses and people in positions of influence. You should be working with a PM/exec to come up with a narrative and refine it into a pitch. You need to work with them to lay out options and benefits/risks and decide which of these you're going to emphasize in your pitch to the board. Executed successfully, you should have gotten sponsors and allies within the parent company to get word to the board member that there is a reason to support the project.
- thiagooffm 9y agoI agree. If the situation goes bad, you can always find a new job, but there's a big opportunity for you to step up and try to do something new that isn't coding. When the house falls down, you leave. But while it's up and running, you stay there and try to keep it up.
- davman 9y agoYeah we've done a hard push this last month or so doing demos and such to potential clients. Everyone seems very excited by it, just struggling to get people to sign on the line! Lots of people saying that it seems fantastic but they already have systems in place that would be too difficult to replace. Two strong leads but they won't be meeting with us until after the board meeting so we can't really use them as "guaranteed" sales to encourage the board.