Deadlines themselves are not a bad thing - they allow company to have some predictability, they let us understood how much ahead or behind we're with our work, they can be very useful. However, besides real deadlines we also have something I call bullshit deadlines - made up by stakeholders to generate pressure and feeling of urgency, they can help the company in the short term, but more often than not they have very bad long-term effects. In this video I'm talking about the differences between good and bad deadlines, and how to deal with situation when we're about to miss a deadline.
Video timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Types of deadlines
3:25 Flexible delivery
4:49 Dealing with real deadlines
6:25 Dealing with bullshit deadlines
7:58 Abused deadlines
10:11 Outro