Hard deadlines are not user-first
>An ideal solution to this would have been to just go talk to the stakeholders - product/sales team - ask them if the delay could be potentially customer losing. And if it is, by all means put in the extra hours, work those weekends.<p>Strongly disagree, it's not on the shoulders of developers to ensure faulty promises can be kept. I will for sure not sacrifice weekends, this is far from ideal