🥳 _-/\-_ 🤯<p>Joined a new customer project today. The project started recently. Customer provides project director and business analysts. We provide architects/devs.<br>Watched a recap of a recent kickoff meeting to get familiar with the business domain and the project setup. <br>In this meeting I noticed that they presented a rough and very (very very) optimistic timeline. </p><p>Me: Were any technical people involved back then when you were setting the timeline?<br>Project Director: No. The dates are fixed. Why?<br>Me: :holdthepain: </p><p><a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/ProjectManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectManagement</span></a> <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/DeveloperLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeveloperLife</span></a> <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a></p>