Communicate the Schedule
Problem: The community doesn’t know when the schedule milestones are. This leads to missed deadlines or unnecessary last-minute effort.
People need to know about the schedule if you want them to meet the deadlines. That means you have to communicate it.
But communicating the schedule is the scariest part. You already know it’s going to be wrong, especially the first few times. You just read that releasing on schedule is important for your project’s credibility, and you don’t want to risk that. People can’t say you released late if they don’t know when you were planning on releasing. Brilliant! Of course, what use is a schedule that no one knows about?
Publish the schedule somewhere easily accessible in a way that’s ...
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