Exactly. I recall one place where an exec pushed for something to be completed in a too-short timeframe. It launched on the schedule he announced to his higher-ups, so he was promoted and moved elsewhere. Woe be to the exec who inherited the project, though, as the code was basically a mound of turds wrapped in Christmas paper. And the team, of course, was fractured and burnt out. The cherry on top was watching the ladder-climber throw a lunch to thank the team; their reward for hundreds of hours of grueling overtime was lukewarm Chinese food dished out of large aluminum bins in a conference room. Plus $50 gift cards!

This was a long time ago, but I still think about it as a moment when I learned what POSIWID really meant.