I can relate to this. It was a common theme across Microsoft. In one instance, the team I was part of was responsible for the initial integration of Bing and Facebook. We had about 24 dedicated people on the team (a few partner/principal group managers too!). Our team was considered agile because we released most features every 4 months (this was around 2009 I think)!!!
Anyway, we had a hackathon at Facebook with Zuckerberg and the FB team. There were all these big (redundant) talks by every manager up that chain about how this is the most important integration, etc.
Guess what came out 4 months later??? A like button on the Bing home page! The kicker was that the code for the widget was picked from the facebook developers portal.
Anyway, we had a hackathon at Facebook with Zuckerberg and the FB team. There were all these big (redundant) talks by every manager up that chain about how this is the most important integration, etc.
Guess what came out 4 months later??? A like button on the Bing home page! The kicker was that the code for the widget was picked from the facebook developers portal.