Last year I busted my ass on a project with a pricetag measured in millions. 6 months later as we were finalizing the build and about to present it to the stakeholders was the moment executive leadership changed their minds and decided they didn’t want it after all. We shelved the code and will probably never use it for anything else because it was extremely specific to that project, so unless someone in executive leadership decides they want the same thing again, it’s just millions spent for literally nothing
I used to work for Comcast on their suite of mobile apps. The whole thing was just a giant fucking scam, but one aimed at the C-suite. Customers didn’t actually use the apps, they just installed them so they could get a (temporary) discount on their cable bills. The installed apps pinged our servers once a day and these were counted as “daily users”. Millions of dollars a year for absolutely fucking nothing. The C-suite eventually caught on and cancelled everything, but I was long gone by that point.
Last year I busted my ass on a project with a pricetag measured in millions. 6 months later as we were finalizing the build and about to present it to the stakeholders was the moment executive leadership changed their minds and decided they didn’t want it after all. We shelved the code and will probably never use it for anything else because it was extremely specific to that project, so unless someone in executive leadership decides they want the same thing again, it’s just millions spent for literally nothing
I used to work for Comcast on their suite of mobile apps. The whole thing was just a giant fucking scam, but one aimed at the C-suite. Customers didn’t actually use the apps, they just installed them so they could get a (temporary) discount on their cable bills. The installed apps pinged our servers once a day and these were counted as “daily users”. Millions of dollars a year for absolutely fucking nothing. The C-suite eventually caught on and cancelled everything, but I was long gone by that point.