>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 dea

>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"....