Calendar Driven Development

Definitions

1. A mocking term for making product and engineering choices mainly to satisfy dates on the calendar rather than technical readiness or user value. In engineering slang, it suggests schedule pressure has started steering architecture and quality decisions badly.

   In plain English: Making development decisions mainly to satisfy deadlines instead of what is technically sound.

   Example: "They shipped half the migration under calendar driven development because the conference date mattered more to leadership than the operational risks everyone had already documented."

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