In my last blog post, I talked about how to manage deadlines when your teams are geographically dispersed. How to create those deadlines? Anyone can guess – and we do – a lot. Sometimes, those guesses actually work out. But not often. Project teams try to sidestep making date commitments, especially in product and software development, where technical uncertainty is high and the project process is iterative. (How many times will that release go to test? As many as it takes.) Teams are reluctant to make a completion date commitment, but commitments must be made. When customers and management are … Read More![]()
