People keep telling me the deadlines are an inevitable fact of life. That’s true for a small percentage of them. (The others are just bullies throwing their weight around for the sake of power.) Fixed time and scope is a death march. We’ve known that for decades. So if a deadline is a real one, and time is fixed, scope must vary. Solve the obvious problem by building the most important stuff first.

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