I’m not sure of your industry, so deadlines could be really important there, but almost every programming job i’ve had the deadlines were frequently just self i

I’m not sure of your industry, so deadlines could be really important there, but almost every programming job i’ve had the deadlines were frequently just self imposed hysteria. Management would make a big deal, but when you dug into what the actual consequences of a missed deadline were it was usually minor. I actually think the culture of tracking everything can make things worse because when everyone is at full capacity theres zero slack for process optimization or serendipity or experimentation. Its like the more overly “busy” everyone is in a company, the more collective intelligence, empathy, and perspective is lost. It also is essentially lost on almost all management that coding is almost always a creative endeavor. After all if the thing you’re building already exists you could just buy it. Creative works are extremely hard to estimate in any meaningful way.