Questions tagged [deadlines]
Questions related to meeting or changing the predetermined end-point of a task or project
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What should I do if I am over tasked?
I would like to know what people on here do when they have a workload which is at maximum, and then they find a task they have runs over time. Examples:
Technical tasks which are difficult to solve ...
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Colleague keeps setting deadlines for me but never meets them himself. How to approach this?
In my job, I am part of a junior team who works with senior employees to support them in their roles. Usually we have several seniors who all need similar services, and the seniors normally say "...
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How to deal with an inflexible and difficult project lead
Alright, I work as a Data Scientist and here goes my situation. About a month and half ago, I was 'pulled into' an ongoing project led by a Mechanical Engineer also a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in ...
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Working with very bad code but on a deadline
I am currently working as a newly assigned lead developer (just in name, not really leading anything) on the frontend code for a project which my employer wants to deliver to various clients.
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Start date pushed back because I didn't meet an address verification deadline that wasn't stated [closed]
I'm in the process of moving and had an email coming in last Monday for confirming my address so my work equipment would arrive on time. I figured I could get back to them a week before my start date ...
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Exact meaning of "application window will close on <date>": submission ok at <date> or only (<date>-1)? [closed]
A job ad says the following: "The application window will close on the 14th of January."
Does this mean on Friday the 14th applications can still be submitted until the end of the day or ...
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Ask again for a document in email
I want to write an email to a person that I already contacted to remind him about an application deadline, and that I need a document from him that I already requested but still got no response and ...
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Confront Manager about Unrealistic Report deadlines
Disclaimer: I know there have been a lot of posts already about unrealistic deadlines, but this one's a bit different, so please don't mark it as a duplicate right away.
Background: For the past two ...
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Job application form submitted after deadline [closed]
There was an on-campus internship opportunity at my college.I got the mail and deadline was 10AM 15
June.I misunderstood it as 10 PM.We had to fill a google form and attach our CV.Nevertheless I ...
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My Boss delayed a website launch from a client due to changes in workflow
Today was the deadline to deploy a new site for a client. I worked on this alone for the last month or so and finished mid last week. I told the client that their site will be live this Monday morning....
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How can I avoid providing a deadline to others who insist on it? [duplicate]
I'm often asked to look into projects or technical issues that I don't understand fully. If you've ever had to do this, you'll know that it's very hard to come up with a deadline or a completion date. ...
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I have been interviewing for my dream job, then things went fast with a different company and I receive an offer, how to professionally manage this?
I have been interviewing for the past two months with a company X that is one of "The big 4", for a dream job. Successfully finished several interviewing rounds and now my last and most difficult ...
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Found an issue last minute that will further delay the project
We are working on a project that has already been a month delay (due to change requests from client.) After we complete our work include these change requests, we found a performance degrade issue (it ...
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Excuses?... Or true mental health journey?.. Time to recover?
I am fortunate to have a position that I love. This position grants me the opportunity to work with professionals from different backgrounds in all fields dedicated to serving underserved families and ...
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Update on My Question " Deadlines getting pushed" Need more advice [closed]
From the previous question I've gone and decided to:
Talk to the CEO about the situation
If the Response is not something that's right for me just get out of here
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Had a chat with the CEO , and ...
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Getting deadlines pushed up for Manager/CEO's "Excitement"
In short I've been a developer for just over a year and a half now including my course time, I got assigned a pretty big project at work, something I'd consider a little bit past the scope of a junior ...
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How to react toward the unrealistic deadline set by Project Manager and System Analyst? [duplicate]
I've joined a MNC recently. I've been on floor for 5 days.
At the End of induction Project Manager discussed that I'll be working on an Android Application effectively as the current person was ...
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Unable to meet goals when manager keeps busy in things which are outside the ambit
I joined a new company two months back. I committed to the CEO to meet certain goals within 3 months timeframe. CEO has a lot of expectations from me. Two months have passed and it seems I will not be ...
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How to get my colleague to work with our new Supervisor?
Me and a group of colleagues now friends work for a medium sized start up. We were all working fine until our manager changed. We were given various assignments to complete before and after the change ...
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How should a leader behave when they miss deadlines themselves?
As a leader in an organization, one has to set an example by being disciplined. But sometimes even leaders can commit a blunder, be it a consequence of workload or anything else.
My friend (we are ...
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How to deal with line manager who doesn't understand complexity of my tasks? [closed]
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I have been in my current position as UX / UI designer at an in-house insurance design agency for just over a year. Prior to my arrival my line manager, who is a designer himself handled ...
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How do you survive a business disaster right after a promotion?
I'm entering a management position for the first time in my career and am wondering how to mitigate potential reputational damage.
The company currently has a flat startup structure, but my ...
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I agreed to cancel a long-planned vacation (with travel costs) due to project deadlines, but now the timeline has all changed again
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cancelled a long-planned trip due to a delay in project deadlines and my backup person quitting, and received most of the cost back from the company.
Turns out in retrospect it wasn't necessary ...
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I stressed my coworker into reprioritizing their work and now I feel bad about it. Did I mess up?
I have a deadline coming up in two weeks. An internal web application needed a small new feature to finish the project. The maintainer of the web application has been extremely helpful in helping me ...
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How to break the cycle of being a "load bearing employee" because of no time to cross-train others because of constant deadlines?
Edit: I considered this question (How to protest a deadline that is too short?) as a suggested duplicate, but in my situation there is no realistic way to 'protest' a deadline, since there's no real ...
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How to handle work with a lot of bureaucracy?
My work has a number of bureaucracy. For a request, a number of approvals must be made, and after approval, my request will go to different teams for implementation.
All those approvals and ...
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I'm stressed by having software deadlines imposed on me without my involvement. How can I deal with this situation?
Over the course of my 20-year career as a software developer, I've always been involved in the estimation process of any work I have to complete. Deadlines are typically agreed upon before we commit ...
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How would you suggest I follow up with coworkers about our deadline that's today?
I'm coordinating an application that an organization I work with will be sending in. There are a few applicants. I've been trying to collect materials over the past few days, but have been getting ...
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As an analyst, how can I mitigate the consequences of missed deadlines due to unforeseen blockers?
My company recently put a new set of CRM features into production and management is eager to find ways to monetize them. A large part of my job has become analyzing the new data and making ...
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Working till 3AM for a deadline; I want to take next day off as leave, but manager insists I take sick day
I'm in the UK, I requested a day of annual leave for the day after a deadline (~3 weeks time) which will result in an estimated 4AM finish for me (could be earlier or later, so 2AM-5AM). I will be the ...
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Supervisor putting me to impossible deadline, ignoring feasibility warnings, and failing to deal with the fallout
tl;dr: My supervisor chose to try to deliver a new feature within an unfeasible org-wide deadline, put me on development for it (despite my early warnings), made me feel like I'm at fault for it not ...
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New (to the company) manager told me to delay a task with a firm schedule; I disobeyed. How should I have handled it?
Worked at this company for around 4 years, I have about 7 years in the workplace overall. I work in a team of 3 who deal with 'reporting' (mostly financial), we maintain the systems that "month end ...
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How to handle a colleague that can't handle stress and makes poor decisions but can work hard
About 6 months ago we hired a developer that came straight from university. He's smart, works hard and seems to create quality code. The first couple of months I acted as a buffer between management ...
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My programmer underestimates deadlines or is just lazy
Since august, I have had a software programmer in my charge and I became the project leader of my area.
She went well with learning things about our area, configuring some tasks, but ever since I ...
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Boss setting expectations that subordinates can't meet
My grand boss has communicated out an unrealistic expectation to the board that we are unable to meet.
My subordinate has complained to the board about my grand bosses conduct but won't elaborate to ...
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What to do if I cannot finish all open tasks on time [closed]
As project manager, I have many open tasks that I realized I cannot finish them by deadline.what is the best approach? should I ;
Finish all tasks at each 80% or finish few of them at 100% ?
I am not ...
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How to explain missing deadlines to superiors?
I was supposed to complete a task and I haven't. This is not the first time.
It is entirely my fault and I don't want to avoid responsibility by making excuses, I instead want to own up to my ...
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How to deal with a uncommitted coworker, it affects my performance too [duplicate]
I am a back end developer for a data visualization tool. I have to work with a coworker who does the front end part.
We established the deadline date to the client (it is a internal client in a big ...
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As a developer; Not getting time to test, receiving extreme deadlines and not being listened to by the manager
A few months back I took over a job from someone who was quitting for the same reasons I am here today. The job involved developing an in-house application that would be used mostly by the staff. The ...
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New project is making me want to quit [closed]
I work for a web development agency and we have recently taken on a legacy project for a new client who wishes to implement changes to their site. The current set of changes that I am working on are ...
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How to professionally prepare my manager for a buggy system
The long and short of things is that my manager has me working on a project that has the most limited time scale I've ever seen. The timeline was given by the client, not determined by the project.
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Balancing the problem of teaching junior devs and meeting deadlines
TL;DR: I am having issues maintaining the balance between mentoring junior devs, meeting deadlines as a group, and completing my own work. Read on for more info.
For background, I work at a small, ...
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How do I deal with someone who forces us to miss deadlines? [closed]
One of my major responsibilities is creating a bi-monthly newsletter. I have to work with a copy editor who is holding onto projects for weeks and pushing us further behind on our deadline. I can't ...
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My Manager Is Enabling Grossly Incompetent Vendors [duplicate]
So, my company suffers from a very severe nepotism problem. And to an extent, I get it: You want to hire people that you know are reliable. But we had one C-level executive hire his son as a director ...
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Working with poorly written code, cannot meet a hard deadline in probation period [duplicate]
I joined my current company recently, and I am on probation. The code I have inherited is brittle and has performance issues. I am not familiar with the system yet, but my manager told me to refactor ...
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Maximal deadline for a job application [closed]
If one sees a job advertisement published on day D, how much time after is the maximal number of days is a good idea to apply for the job?
I sometimes see interesting job ads, but I don't apply ...
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I procrastinated on a project for too long, what should I do? [duplicate]
This procrastination issue has a long buildup, but I will try to explain it briefly. I was working on a large project with a senior programmer in a language/methodology I was new to. About half-way ...
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Internship and can't make deadline. Should I work unpaid extra time?
I am currently working as an intern (with a good pay).
I have had trouble on my project, and took more time than what was expected of me to find what was wrong with a part of it. Now the deadline is ...
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Struggling to finish project, how to tell coworker?
About 8 months ago I began working on a project for a colleague (part of my job is to do side projects like this). Essentially developing an excel application for a very large database we have.
At ...
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How do I tell my boss that my project won't be completed nearly as fast as he thinks?
I'm an intern at a development company for an ERP system.
The company is currently in its infancy, and as such the code base that's being developed is relatively new. My task is to write ...
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