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From a webdev perspective this actually holds true. If we promise too much and deliver an underwhelming product the clients lose their minds. All those excuses
by system2 5y ago
From a webdev perspective this actually holds true. If we promise too much and deliver an underwhelming product the clients lose their minds. All those excuses never to pay.
- unnouinceput 5y agoare you, by any chance, a successful webdev though? I mean, are you, at least, a millionaire by being webdev? when you become one, then you can say this holds true. Your argument, of under deliver and getting in trouble is something else entirely, not the opposition of OP's quote.
- staticelf 5y agoEconomically it's my experience as a web dev that overselling is the best way to get more resources because people always fall in the trap of sunk cost. It is easy to get more funding by whatever resource you want when you got at least a bit. For example, lets say I want to refactor a whole codebase and I oversell it to my boss that it will take only 2 weeks when in fact it will take 3. Very few managers will in my experience say no to you getting an extra week due to the sunk cost trap when they may say no if you said 3 weeks at the beginning. Of course, people may get disgruntled and unhappy with you if this happens to frequently but it is a powerful phsycological trick you may use when you really need it.