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I don't see it this way at all. The PM sorts tasks based on prerequisites and availability of resources needed to complete them. Deadlines are the times a task
by mecsred 3y ago
I don't see it this way at all. The PM sorts tasks based on prerequisites and availability of resources needed to complete them. Deadlines are the times a task has to be done by to not block other tasks that have it as a prerequisite. If you achieve it well in advance, you note to bring it up in a performance review and pick a new task. If it's behind, you don't give up, people are waiting on you now.
- kqr 3y agoYou have a far more nuanced view of deadlines than most people I've spoken to. It sounds like you think of deadlines as a cost function where the cost of something not being done is zero until a particular date, then rises more and more as more time passes beyond that date. That's a much more useful perspective than "it doesn't matter if it's done and suddenly on this day it becomes super important" which is what a deadline implies to me. (For concrete examples of this binary type of deadline, think of releasing something at a conference, or handing in an essay in school.)
- mecsred 3y agoThat's a fair point, I definitely think closer to the second paragraph in terms of presentations etc. Different analysis than project work for sure.