[imiric]

Right. I wish more managers/coaches/masters understood this.

Features are done when they're done (for a given definition of "done"). Once we're satisfied with what we have, we release it. Otherwise we keep working, or we scope down.

Strict deadlines are seemingly based on financial period expectations, rather than on what actually produces better software, and thus, ironically, more revenue for the same stockholders who were demanding a date. It seems more of a short-term strategy than long-term.

Anyway, that's my pessimistic, armchair interpretation of it.