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>>vimes6+(OP)
Which is more likely: Businesses invent truly arbitrary deadlines for the hell of it, or the “engineers” don’t want to pay attention to business requirements and competitive pressures?

When so-called engineers stop spending half the development schedule choosing a framework and the other half trying to make their dev setup work on everyone’s personalized laptop they will have some credibility complaining about “arbitrary” business goals and requirements.

>>gregjo+N8
I often see engineers having a cynical self defeating view of the business. They will blindly follow complex requirements while complaining that there is not much they can do about it.

But if you demonstrate that you understand things from the business perspective, they are much more receptive to making adjustments.

Product managers like to gold plate things as much as engineers. There is usually some fat you can trim from the scope to make a deadline.