I disagree that something a manager should be chastening developers for at a product company is missing a deadline. When your only stakeholder is the user, dea

I disagree that something a manager should be chastening developers for at a product company is missing a deadline. When your only stakeholder is the user, deadlines are all artificial. It might be different at a consulting company. I'm not saying companies shouldn't estimate and schedule work, but missing estimates is almost never an individual developer's fault, it's systemic and/or a failure in management. If a developer isn't productive enough for their seniority level overall... that's something a manager has to address. But if a developer misses a deadline, it's probably the manager's fault. It's probably the manager who needs to be working on their estimation and tasking methods.