I'm struggling with what you reportedly did wrong in this. Looking back, how would you have handled this differently? I don't see how the schedule for a complex software product can be pulled in at that late date, even if everyone had wanted to. Also, the rationale for the ask reads as trivial: just because the Germany field team wanted a particular venue on a particular date, the product team was expected to jump to make it happen ... how?
I'm struggling with what you reportedly did wrong in this. Looking back, how would you have handled this differently? I don't see how the schedule for a complex software product can be pulled in at that late date, even if everyone had wanted to. Also, the rationale for the ask reads as trivial: just because the Germany field team wanted a particular venue on a particular date, the product team was expected to jump to make it happen ... how?