Quote Originally Posted by lezard21 View Post
Yeah, sorry, but that's not how it works in general. You don't notice 2 weeks earlier that you won't be making a deadline unless

a) you procastrinated and started working on said project 2 weeks before the deadline (which we know was not the case here)
b) an unexpected major incident happened (doesn't sound like it)

What this sounds like is devs knowing they needed extra time but superiors/execs telling them to crunch it till it eventually became apparent to them that that was not gonna happen, hence the 2 weeks notice.
I work deploying cloud builds for a large telecom in the US. We FREQUENTLY have builds get delayed due to issues, most of them hardware related. FedEx delays, Vendor delays, and thus, deadlines slip, impacting customer deployment dates. Some of these dates slip the day of. Maybe this is why I'm so numb to this, as its literally my job dealing with it.