> 3. Sometimes while chasing deadlines, it helps if an EM can just sit with an individual contributor and do pair programming. Reminding developers about deadli

> 3. Sometimes while chasing deadlines, it helps if an EM can just sit with an individual contributor and do pair programming. Reminding developers about deadline won't motivate them as much as an EM sitting beside them and helping them out with coding. I'm in a somewhat different field, but I had this experience a couple of times when I was younger-ish and didn't feel good about it. I don't think it raised my productivity It may have been a good management move -- mitigating a high-stakes delivery risk by literally keeping an eye close, i.e. sitting next to me at my desk, but it felt more like panicky micromanagement (lasting for two or three days only, thankfully) than sharing the burden of an unplanned delivery. (Unplanned delivery requests sometimes happen in my field. But what we do isn't as bottom-up as programming; it's more like a progressive GIF, iterative refinement from high level concept down to action plan, so unexpected intermediate deliveries can be good for the client.)