Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read
I hate deadlines, but — like you — I tend to believe their necessary.
I believe in them because, like you said, I think constraints are not only good for a project, they’re necessary, especially in early (somewhat more creative) stages.
But I hate them because more often than not they are externally imposed on a team rather than being an “internal commitment”. When that’s the case, as someone commented before, they tend to instill on team members the sense of being in a conveyor belt, working relentlessly towards an artificial goal than no one really agreed upon, which can lead not only to bad code but, more broadly, to bad decisions.
