Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Budget, or at All
In my experience, deadlines set by higher-ups long removed from (or never having) the technical chops to be determining the deadlines in the first place. VP&#x27;s and Directors are often the ones dictating the direction, which is great, but then also introducing deadlines, with helpful input from Directors who ALSO haven&#x27;t touched code in many years.<p>Generally that results in one of two things:<p>* Product delivered on-time with massive technical debt.<p>* Product delivered late with massive technical debt.<p>Frankly I don&#x27;t know if adding front-line engineers to the deadline decisions is going to make the issue better or worse, but fundamentally having non-technical or formerly-technical people defining deadlines definitely doesn&#x27;t work.