On: The Student Syndrome: Delaying until right before ...

[edu]

Another benefit, in my experience, is that a many of these projects end not being required. So you’re saving effort.

[creer → edu]

So yes, there is that advantage to the strategy.

In the workplace though, sometimes people will not keep coming back to you for the result - but they will still remember that you did not deliver. Have to be careful about that one. Was it really "not needed", or were you chosen as the convenient reason why it did not happen?