Timelines
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- vaxorcist0
Forgive my rant, but this is from building fairly large web apps....
Any project "timeline" is a fundamental illusion of business. Web development is non-linear, timelines are linear. Mediocre project managers and account people LOVE timelines, because it gives a "comfort and predictability" to what is actually NOT VERY PREDICTABLE... One positive feature about timelines is that it casuses people to STOP ASKING FOR NEW FEATURES after a certain point in time, but that may bite you in the butt later..
Timelines indicate that it's more important to have "something" that is "done on time" ... when this often gives you, well, not quite the right thing, but it's "done on time"
...but then you get this paradox, because client realizes it's not quite the right thing, then asks for more features, but sometimes these new features are like adding wings to a submarine and demanding that the thing fly... all because the "discovery" portion of the god-awful "timeline" was rushed, based on assumptions that turned out to be wrong....