Keep Stakeholders Engaged
Years ago, very shortly after I’d taken over management of a new team, there was to be a demonstration of a new set of features that my team had developed. The demonstration was for the heads of the business areas that would be using those new features. The software was to be imminently pushed to production, and this was the final step. I was just about to round the corner into the demonstration room when I heard one of those VPs say, “Well, what did you do that for? We didn’t ask for that! That’s not going to work!”