Why do product teams need deadlines?
6 min readMay 23, 2022
A few weeks back, I wrote a post about the ways product teams can set deadlines. Although in general it was well-received, one opinion came up several times in responses on Medium and Hacker News. And that perspective was “why do we even need deadlines?”
In my experience, this is something that I hear with some frequency from engineers, so I figure that it makes sense to address it. The reasoning…