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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by thow-01187 on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:50AM (#28085847)
Furthermore, financial penalties on late delivery are not uncommon in enterprise business-to-business settings. These penalties are sometimes quite steep

If the choice is between releasing kinda-working, but unpolished software, or throwing a developer's monthly labor cost out of the window every single day, these management anti-patterns suddenly make much more sense

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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by Forge36 on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:58AM (#28085908)
I business agreement isn't an arbitrary date. Those dates should be clearly communicated to engineers.
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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by danparsonson on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:58AM (#28086510)
They are communicated to engineers - in the form of deadlines...
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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by spaetzleesser on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:25PM (#28089360)
Problem with a lot of deadlines is that you aren’t told if this is a hard requirement because of a contract or some other external factor or just an ego trip or wishful thinking of upper management.

I have seen it plenty of times that management pushed for an arbitrary deadline. The deadline passed, project was not done and nothing bad happened other than another new deadline.

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