1) and 2) I can't agree more. However, your guess is right, the team have little trust in the process. Now that there aren't really business critical new featu

1) and 2) I can't agree more. However, your guess is right, the team have little trust in the process. Now that there aren't really business critical new features, I think I'm successully not giving them pressure. But, as already happened in other teams/context, when the time for an important business feature comes, the director/business could "override" me and giving the team extreme pressure. About the deadline, I agree with you as a professional, but in this company they like to organize launch keynotes and stuff like that so we need to ship within the keynote date. (vent mode) You wonder how the keynote date is set? I don't really know, with my boss I really don't see any transparency in that