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Ai's avatar

> Once I became a manager, I finally saw why they were needed, but felt guilty about using them.

The "why they were needed" is some guy with exponentially more university connections than sense trying to squeeze the engineering department for his bonus.

Don't lie to your employees, then invent some rationalizing and a new name your lies, you snotball.

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Rafa Páez's avatar

This is a great article, Anton! And I still remember the original one from James!

I cannot agree more. I used to dislike deadlines, but being a manager for several years now, I realized that deadlines are critical to make things happen.

People are scare to that word, and sometimes we call it differently to sugar coat it. The reality is, everyone is serious about the business wants to know when something is going to be delivered. Ultimately, the surrounding issues are for lack of effective communication, not the deadline itself. As simple as that!

Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer, also wrote an interesting blog post about the importance of deadlines.

Fight the drag. Set a deadline.

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