Managing engineering deadlines is about more than setting dates. Here’s how to plan for ambitious but achievable deadlines for your team.
Deadlines: we can’t live with them, we can’t live without them. Depending on your past experiences, attaching a deadline to your work may saddle you with a touch of anxiety, or strike fear deep in your heart.
Before I transitioned into management, I viewed deadlines with immense dread. I didn’t like the idea of attaching a due date to the product development process. But once I moved into a leadership role, and became responsible for the productivity (and subsequent output) of an engineering team, I began to see just how much value a deadline can bring when it comes to planning, targeting, and accomplishing a shared goal.
