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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

Your IT Reviewer. She got you to offer free storage and discounted training. This is the “deal prevention” team in many big corporations. They’ve had years of business-unit managers buying software solutions they didn’t need and that eventually become shelfware. Biv Dev teams?

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform. What did he know?