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Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy

The 5 most common mistakes of managers and how to avoid them

I always feel responsible for delivering on time, so I used to work my ass off (weekends and nights included) just to meet a random date. Projects that don't have deadlines imposed on them, even if they are self-imposed, will take a lot longer than they need to, and may suffer from feature creep and scope bloat. It's such a simple technique, but when you compound its usage over a year at a big company, you will be amazed at the difference it makes.

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