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> People who have worked in the second type of environment (deadlines are real and have consequences) become quite good at estimating and managing progress toward deadlines without crunch mode at the end. They become good at communicating issues with deadlines far in advance to avoid surprises.

So, incentives matter - shocking, just shocking.

Or maybe the take away is that is there is no incentive, someone made it up and it doesn't matter.