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"""Sleep needs to be a secondary concern when stacked against a deadline.""" Actually there is only one deadline that matters, and it's called death. If your
by dextorious 15y ago
"""Sleep needs to be a secondary concern when stacked against a deadline."""
Actually there is only one deadline that matters, and it's called death.
If your company is "stacked against deadlines" in order to compete, you're doing it wrong. "Fast time to market" is a rat race for marginal benefits, not a business strategy.
Google didn't get #1 because it was first on the market. Neither did Facebook, Microsoft et al.
- xarien 15y agoHonestly, deadlines aren't there to be first to market. Deadlines are there so you can accurately pace / measures yourself. Once deadlines start slipping, it's a slippery slope. At some point, you may have to look at the planning to see if the plan itself is too aggressive given the resource constraints. With that said, I firmly believe that a strong team needs to stand behind deadlines however arbitrary.
- danssig 15y ago>Once deadlines start slipping, it's a slippery slope. Yes, and once people start doing insane things like working double hours and skipping sleep then the deadline is going to get worse and the finished product will be a train wreck. I worked somewhere where there was a big push for a deadline. People were put on 12 hour days, 6 days a week for about a year. When they made their release it was one of the biggest disasters in company history (big place). The CIO looked at it and said "we're not giving anyone more time to get their projects done because we've seen that when they have more time the result is crap anyway"....