>Internal deadline: This is a target internal to the team that will not affect anybody outside of the team. Never in my life have I witnessed an internal deadl

>Internal deadline: This is a target internal to the team that will not affect anybody outside of the team. Never in my life have I witnessed an internal deadline. If it came out of your mouth and someone heard it, well done, you've got yourself a soft-deadline. If you haven't said it out loud, it's an expected completion date, not a deadline.