The real fun begins when an executive skips down the chain to directly order you to provide X, accompanied with another order forbidding any further efforts on Y.
Then, six months later, said executive shows back up demanding to know why you haven't provisioned this great Y thingamajig that his golf buddy was raving about.
Then, six months later, said executive shows back up demanding to know why you haven't provisioned this great Y thingamajig that his golf buddy was raving about.