Based on the success of your previous releases, the CEO announces a new product release in six months. You think it’s too soon based on your velocity and meet with her to get a solid understanding of what she wants to accomplish with the release and why. At the end of the meeting, she offers to double the size of your team–but she refuses to budge on the launch date. What should you do?
Training more team members takes time and isn’t something that can happen overnight. A bigger budget with flexibility about how you use it will at least give you more possible ways to solve the problems you run into with the deadlines.
