[OT] Extra time spent

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/06/2014 04:37 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Yeah that sounds very familiar. A typical situation at my job goes
> something like this:
>
> Customer: I want feature X!
> Sales rep: OK, we'll implement X in 1 month.
> Customer: No, I want it by last month!
> Sales rep: OK, and we'll throw in feature Y too, at no extra charge.
> (Later)
> Sales rep (to coders): Here's a new project for you: implement X and Y.
> Coders: That sounds really complicated! It will take us 2 months.
> Sales rep: What?! We don't have 2 months! They want this by*last*  month!
> Coders: That's impossible. Even the quickest hack we can do will take 1
> 	month.
> Sales rep: This is a huge customer and it's going to cost us a billion
> 	dollar deal! You have to*make*  it work!
> Coders: sigh... OK, 3 weeks.
> Sales rep: No, yesterday.
> Coders: Fine, tomorrow we'll make a paper-n-glue model.
> Sales rep: Today.
> Coders: Sigh...

Isn't the fundamental problem here that the customer will pay a billion 
dollars even if the software ends up being full of bugs?