snake-oil simplification


when someone oversimplifies a task in order to get your buy-in. this is something done typically by sales people in order to clinch a sale, or by software management in order to convince developers to -ssign small estimates to large and complicated tasks
that mgmt slide show was a total snake-oil simplification! when you think about it for a few minutes its clear that providing the functionality described will be a lot more complicated than just plugging component a into server b. who agreed to the effort estimates on this anyway!?!? we’re screwed man, we’ll never make this date!

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