Beating Schedule Pressure
Schedule pressure appears to be endemic to software development, and it has produced damaging, short-term thinking on two levels. At a local level, it has encouraged shortcut-taking on specific projects, which damages those specific projects. At a more global level, it has encouraged a fire-fighting mentality about schedule pressure itself. People view schedule pressure as a problem unique to their current project, even though they've felt schedule pressure on every project they've ever worked on and even though it has been one of the defining characteristics of the software industry for at least 30 years.
Ironically, we can't solve the problem of rapid development until we solve the problem of schedule pressure. As
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