[phtrivier]

Yeah, sales take part in the blame game too, otherwise they would miss on the fun. I don't see many salesperson quit their job to become carpenters, though, so maybe the huge paychecks help. Go figure.

That being said, engineers usually don't complain about being asked for the status of the feature.

What we complain about is being asked why the feature we never committed to deliver is still not there yet.

Even worse if we get cornered into uttering words that are then ret-conned into a commitment.

(A very "efficient" techniques I've heard of if for salesperson to "ask the same question over and over again with enough variations until the engineer and PMs cave." May be helpful if you have already decided to answer "yes" to the feature request / RFP checkbox anyway. Doesn't end well for most people, but sometime a quota gotta be quota-ed....)