TEM84: Should deadlines be flexible? (TEM Short)

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TEM84: Should deadlines be flexible? (TEM Short)

This TEM Short is in response to my interview with John Beder in TEM83.

Is a lack of a deadline holding your project back?

Topics Covered:

  • 1:22 - How John had some flexible deadlines throughout the process but had a very hard deadline at the end of the project (with consequences for not meeting it!) which brought it across the finish line

  • 4:09 - How we can apply this to each of our own projects like making a website and why deadlines are important

  • 5:21 - Seth Godin's insistence that any project have a hard ship deadline that will be met no matter what

  • 6:10 - How freeing it is to realize (like John did while making this film) that your best work is still ahead of you

  • 7:30 - Do you have any projects that are floundering because they don't have a specific, immovable deadline for shipping (Spoiler: I do!)

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Produced by Joey Santillo