The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.