Term · General Industry
Sandbagging
Publishing specifications conservatively so that shipped parts comfortably exceed them. It protects against returns and process drift, but leaves performance unclaimed and makes datasheet comparisons between vendors unreliable.
- Also known as
- Spec sandbagging
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- General Industry, Shop-floor jargon
Notes
The same behaviour in schedule or forecast discussions means padding an estimate so it can be beaten.
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