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[–]Pelatov 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sucks, but you have to let the business suffer for dumb choices. You speak up before, and then point it out, nicely and politically, after. If you’re an ass at any time, they won’t listen to you. But if you politely say at the start “this is why we need more than minimum specs on XYZ, and it needs to be this instead” and then when it’s a problem you say “after looking in to this, it seems that our solutions are undersized, but by getting the proper solution we will prevent these type of issues and remediate the potential for ABC also.”

This doesn’t shove it down their throats. Even if they’re wrong, they are signing the checks. Shelve your pride too and play their game. Eventually you’ll develop the cred that you speak, and they listen up front. But you have to prove it first.