The book "It doesn't have to be crazy at work" [1] presents a nice approach to deal with deadlines: > [...] The date won’t move up and the date won’t move back

The book "It doesn't have to be crazy at work" [1] presents a nice approach to deal with deadlines: > [...] The date won’t move up and the date won’t move back. What’s variable is the scope of the problem—the work itself. But only on the downside. You can’t fix a deadline and then add more work to it. That’s not fair. Our projects can only get smaller over time, not larger. As we progress, we separate the must-haves from the nice-to-haves and toss out the nonessentials [...] [1] https://basecamp.com/books/calm https://basecamp.com/books/calm