"Why cannot meet deadline?"."Why need extension?"."Why didn't plan ahead?"."How come so many bugs?"

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Several intertwined factors cause missed deadlines, requests for extensions, and bugs, including poor planning, miscommunication, and unrealistic expectations.


Why deadlines are missed

  • Poor planning and estimation: People tend to be overly optimistic (a phenomenon known as the "planning fallacy") and underestimate how long tasks will take, even when they've done similar tasks before. Without a realistic schedule, deadlines are destined to be missed.
  • Competing priorities: Both individuals and teams often have more high-priority tasks than they can realistically complete. This can lead to rushed or incomplete work and missed deadlines.
  • Unclear priorities and expectations: If the team doesn't have a shared understanding of what is most important, or if expectations aren't clearly communicated, employees may focus on less critical tasks, delaying urgent work.
  • Scope creep: The project's requirements or deliverables can expand beyond the initial goals. Without a formal process to manage these changes, they can consume extra time and resources, leading to delays.
  • Unforeseen roadblocks: Projects often encounter unexpected snags, like a key team member leaving, a critical software bug, or a supply chain disruption, that can halt work.

Why extensions are needed

  • Unforeseen challenges: Requests for an extension are often necessary when genuinely unexpected issues arise. These can include technical problems, resource shortages, or external events like supply chain issues or natural disasters.
  • Last-minute changes: Major changes in requirements, design, or project scope can happen late in the development cycle. These last-minute additions create significant delays that make the original deadline impossible.
  • Overloaded schedules: A key employee's plate may become too full due to new, high-priority tasks, making it impossible to complete a project on time without an extension.
  • Personal emergencies: Illness, family issues, or other personal crises are valid reasons that can prevent someone from completing their work.

Why people don't plan ahead

  • Optimism bias: People are naturally wired to be optimistic about their ability to complete tasks quickly. They may underestimate the complexities and potential roadblocks, leading them to plan poorly.
  • Pressure and tight deadlines: When project timelines are unrealistic from the start, there may not be enough time allocated for thorough planning. Teams are forced to "optimize for starting fast instead of finishing strong," skipping the crucial planning phase.
  • Inadequate project management: Poor governance and a lack of strong management practices can lead to insufficient upfront planning. The project may lack clearly defined objectives, roles, and resource allocation, setting it up for failure from the beginning.
  • Lack of risk management: Failing to anticipate and plan for potential problems or risks is a major reason projects get delayed. A thorough risk assessment could identify potential issues and create contingency plans.

Why so many bugs exist

  • Communication breakdowns: Misunderstandings between clients, designers, developers, and testers are a leading cause of bugs. If requirements are unclear or are misinterpreted, the implemented solution may not match the intended one.
  • Time pressure: Rushed development timelines and looming deadlines can force developers to cut corners and skip or shorten critical steps like testing and code reviews, resulting in more bugs.
  • Complex software: As software systems grow more complex, they become harder to develop and maintain. The intricacy increases the likelihood of introducing errors during development and makes existing bugs harder to find.
  • Insufficient testing: Inadequate or rushed testing is a major culprit. Without comprehensive unit, integration, and regression testing, bugs will inevitably slip through and appear in the final product.
  • Human error: Even experienced programmers make mistakes. Coding errors, logical flaws, or simple oversights are an unavoidable part of the development process.
  • Changing requirements: Continuous changes to requirements are common. However, they can confuse the development team, and if not managed properly, can introduce new bugs or break existing functionality.
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Several intertwined factors cause missed deadlines, requests for extensions, and bugs, including poor planning, miscommunication, and unrealistic expectations.


Why deadlines are missed

  • Poor planning and estimation: People tend to be overly optimistic (a phenomenon known as the "planning fallacy") and underestimate how long tasks will take, even when they've done similar tasks before. Without a realistic schedule, deadlines are destined to be missed.
  • Competing priorities: Both individuals and teams often have more high-priority tasks than they can realistically complete. This can lead to rushed or incomplete work and missed deadlines.
  • Unclear priorities and expectations: If the team doesn't have a shared understanding of what is most important, or if expectations aren't clearly communicated, employees may focus on less critical tasks, delaying urgent work.
  • Scope creep: The project's requirements or deliverables can expand beyond the initial goals. Without a formal process to manage these changes, they can consume extra time and resources, leading to delays.
  • Unforeseen roadblocks: Projects often encounter unexpected snags, like a key team member leaving, a critical software bug, or a supply chain disruption, that can halt work.

Why extensions are needed

  • Unforeseen challenges: Requests for an extension are often necessary when genuinely unexpected issues arise. These can include technical problems, resource shortages, or external events like supply chain issues or natural disasters.
  • Last-minute changes: Major changes in requirements, design, or project scope can happen late in the development cycle. These last-minute additions create significant delays that make the original deadline impossible.
  • Overloaded schedules: A key employee's plate may become too full due to new, high-priority tasks, making it impossible to complete a project on time without an extension.
  • Personal emergencies: Illness, family issues, or other personal crises are valid reasons that can prevent someone from completing their work.

Why people don't plan ahead

  • Optimism bias: People are naturally wired to be optimistic about their ability to complete tasks quickly. They may underestimate the complexities and potential roadblocks, leading them to plan poorly.
  • Pressure and tight deadlines: When project timelines are unrealistic from the start, there may not be enough time allocated for thorough planning. Teams are forced to "optimize for starting fast instead of finishing strong," skipping the crucial planning phase.
  • Inadequate project management: Poor governance and a lack of strong management practices can lead to insufficient upfront planning. The project may lack clearly defined objectives, roles, and resource allocation, setting it up for failure from the beginning.
  • Lack of risk management: Failing to anticipate and plan for potential problems or risks is a major reason projects get delayed. A thorough risk assessment could identify potential issues and create contingency plans.

Why so many bugs exist

  • Communication breakdowns: Misunderstandings between clients, designers, developers, and testers are a leading cause of bugs. If requirements are unclear or are misinterpreted, the implemented solution may not match the intended one.
  • Time pressure: Rushed development timelines and looming deadlines can force developers to cut corners and skip or shorten critical steps like testing and code reviews, resulting in more bugs.
  • Complex software: As software systems grow more complex, they become harder to develop and maintain. The intricacy increases the likelihood of introducing errors during development and makes existing bugs harder to find.
  • Insufficient testing: Inadequate or rushed testing is a major culprit. Without comprehensive unit, integration, and regression testing, bugs will inevitably slip through and appear in the final product.
  • Human error: Even experienced programmers make mistakes. Coding errors, logical flaws, or simple oversights are an unavoidable part of the development process.
  • Changing requirements: Continuous changes to requirements are common. However, they can confuse the development team, and if not managed properly, can introduce new bugs or break existing functionality.
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We need an AI glasses that we can wear which is intelligent enough to quickly flash the excuses shown only to you when bosses grill u with difficult questions.

Then u blah blah out whatever AI tells u.

The AI needs to be smart enough to quickly display contextual reasons for u to respond to whatever life questions that comes your way..

I think sure sell like hotcakes
 

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For some reason, jobs is now much tougher, more workload, less manpower after covid

Everything is potential timebomb that could blow up in your face
 

tomsss

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TS want to do this so bad

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cosmothecat

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Oh btw, nowadays is using AI to program codes already

I used AI to program MT4 robot trader codes to trade FX automatically
 

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ts when chiu realise that there is only 1 Deadline that matters then chiu u will look open
 
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