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By Most people hate pressure. They'll tell you pressure makes them nervous, or perhaps they perform badly under pressure. But more often than not, pressure can be a really good thing...
Click through for some questions regarding your project experience.
Why does a lack of time on a project or problem often result in more creative solutions? Your job is to answer these questions, and draw your own conclusions...
Think of a project that you delivered on in a creative way. What do you think was the single most important factor in the creativity of your solution?
On that project, do you feel you had:
[ ] Way more time than you needed
[ ] Just as much time as you needed
[ ] Way less time than you needed
Why do you think most wildly creative solutions are arrived at for problems where there's not enough time to reasonably solve that problem?
How can you use that information to be more creative and more successful in your own problem-solving and project completion?
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I agree with this post. Interesting solutions to problems come from both sides of the spectrum. I currently have WAY more time than I need and having time to rethink everything can make a big difference. That said I think the human brain really works well under pressure. Though it can lead to stress which can ultimately become a problem. As with everything it's probably best to be able to tackle solutions from both sides of the spectrum to gain perspective from the contrast.
I'd say, even if the observation was right, which I'm not even sure it is (lacking even hints at empirical data, it's simply a claim, not a truth), "not a bad thing" would at best apply as long as your judgement considers only work results, completely disregarding developer welfare including well-being, motivation, general health and even lifespan. (Most of which, on a side note, strongly influences work results as well.)
If you take a positive attitude to short deadlines as suggested hear then it may be possible to reap the benefits without suffering from too much stress. It is not necesarily the situation that leads to stress, but our reaction to it.
Yes, a lot of projects are in the power-zone: way too much to do and too little time. But I don't necessarily see a correlation between the creativity of the solutions and the time left. I think that the creativity is correlated to the number of inputs and time for discussions and that sporty deadlines lead to less quality....
Solutions developed under pressure tend to lack foresight, creating other problems down the road. It simply pushes the consequences of your hasty decisions down the road, and everyone else is left to suffer as a result.
I have worked in many (IT-related) projects and every single one of them was understaffed or underbudgeted. This seems to be an unwanted trend nowadays...