Federico Cargnelutti

Some Web development companies, specially media agencies, suffer from what I call the “deadline” syndrome (don’t google it, I’ve just made it up). Unrealistic deadlines not only place unnecessary barriers upon project teams, but also produce poorly tested and low-quality software.

Inflexible and unrealistic deadlines causes developers to react rather than plan, work in solitary instead of teaming, and apply obvious solutions instead of intelligent or brilliant ones.

But, who cares? I do.

So, what can you do about it? You can adopt an agile methodology. With Scrum for example, deadlines are always kept, but if all features have not been developed on time, features are removed instead of moving the deadline.