alt Hacker NewsIt’s always a trade off between raising the bar and making a deadline. The deadline always wins since the boss doesn’t know how to read code
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doctorpangloss • yesterday at 11:55 PM
Deadlines are a way to manage people. They’re fine but most deadlines are not real. There are other ways to manage people, such as paying people more in bonuses for goals.
Sadly a lot of engineers have been indoctrinated into this mindset and I have had to fight quite many battles to conceive my fellow engineers that missing a deadline is not the worst thing in the world.