[galangalalgol]

In that case deadlines are useful because you have so many people depending on you that you don't know which or how many of them have real dead lines. That isn't as common in software I think?

But needing a new working iOS by ship time for the next phone? That is a pretty hard deadline, and why apple doesn't use agile. They say agile doesn't support synchronous hardware/software releases.

The problem is when I bsupport multiple efforts, some with deadlines and aome without, the ones with deadlines always get "done in a minute" descoped so that I don't starve an ongoing que as is described here.