deadlines
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What To Do When You Miss A Deadline At Work
2It happens to the best of us — maybe accounting didn’t get you the numbers on time. Maybe the design work you thought would take you four hours is taking more like 14. Maybe Taco Tuesday turned into Food Poisoning Tuesday, and you know you won’t make your deadline.
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Why You Shouldn’t Always Meet The Deadline
“When you finish a project with an unrealistic deadline, your reward is another project with another unrealistic deadline.” Meridian Health Plan CIO Tom Lauzon made that observation at the Progress Exchange conference I attended last week, and it’s definitely worth bearing in mind.
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The Deadline Effect: Nothing Ever Happens Until The Last Minute
The graph above shows the number of proposals for talks submitted for Linux.conf.au graphed against the deadline for submissions. This reaffirms what we’ve long known: if you set a deadline, most people won’t do anything about it until the last possible minute.
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Use A Weekly Countdown To Stay On Top Of Your Goals
Managing deadlines on long-term projects can be a tricky task: far-off deadlines don’t seem real, and imminent daily deadlines don’t seem to move the project along. The head of London’s planning committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics argues that measuring far-off events in weeks helps to keep projects on track.