I've worked on long projects for a while, you can be relatively invisible for a year and let them know you're getting close (meaning a couple months) and the ma

I've worked on long projects for a while, you can be relatively invisible for a year and let them know you're getting close (meaning a couple months) and the management will freak out and want it yesterday if it's near the end of a quarter and they think it will look good on quarterly reports. I assume the same can happen with government actors and "security companies".