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I second that one. Most project sponsors are pretty forgiving if you explain why the deadline is going to be missed as long as you give them a reasonable answer and a reasonable push date.
It's all about managing customer expectation.
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Spiffdog Design
It's ok.. he's no ordinary dog...
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Or, be proactive in the first place and negotiate a payment schedule based on delivery with realistic deliverables and NO penalty if requirements change.
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Project Managers don't like big suprises - so don't tell them with 1 week to go that the project is going to be 1 month late. Give them a 'heads up' that things are likely to slip. This way they can liase with your customer and re-negotiate deadlines, or impliment a staged release, or manage expectations.
... Of course a project manager that ignores the early warnings from his development team isn't worth the fuel he uses to travel to work and will not earn respect from his team.
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If I made the estimate then I'd feel responsible for it and do what I can to get it in on time. If the deadline was forced on me against my advice I would be less motivated to respond to the pressure.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: If I made the estimate then I'd feel responsible for it and do what I can to get it in on time. If the deadline was forced on me against my advice I would be less motivated to respond to the pressure.
current situation right now.
however they are aware of what they have inflicted on us and are waving cash in our faces to soften the blow, which works for me. 
inevitably there are things that will be left out of the first release phase because of the completely unrealistic timescale.
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There are also cases in which the deadlines are completely artificial, i.e., there is no customer delivery to meet and management just decide that task X should be finished by time Y. It's just a way of their seeing that we're being "productive."
Kevin
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Guy Harwood wrote: waving cash in our faces
You know something? Sooner or later, the $20 bill on the dresser just doesn't cut it anymore.
Software Zen: delete this;
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A 20$ bill will get exactly 15 minutes of work out of me...
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Dag.
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