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Or it becomes so unusable that the customers become disenchanted and flee to competitors.

If management keeps making up deadlines without engineering input, then they get to apologize to the customer for being wrong. Being an adult means taking responsibility for your own actions. I can’t make a liar look good in perpetuity and it’s better to be a little wrong now than to hit the cliff and go from being on time to six months late practically overnight.



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