You get to work early. After dropping your stuff off at your desk, you migrate to the coffee machine. As you arrive, you see a group of operations people talking. You’d like to say this is a coincidence, but it’s not. You know that the operations team gets in early and that this is the best time to talk to them.
Greeting them, you casually mention the demo you have been working on. Someone groans: “I can’t see how they can expect us to keep doing this. We just don’t have the resources to keep funding and running these little projects. We have a backlog of work to be done: new projects, deployments, system upgrades, and performance tuning. On top of that, we are constantly being pulled off because of emergencies. I’m not blaming you, but it’s just a nightmare sometimes.”