Originally Posted by wens

I'm on the third iteration of a project. First round: sales: we need something like this product we used to make, but with a different ui. Engineering: ok, here are our questions about the product spec, and the things we need to nail down. Sales: don't worry about that, they'll take whatever, just do it fast. Engineering: reluctantly does something like. Sales: they don't like it and project is dead.

Second round: repeat first round.

Third round: repeat first two rounds up to "don't worry about it, they'll take whatever", except it's only an emergency in a huge rush when we need to do something, not the customer.

What could possibly go wrong with this project?