If you have a large amount of work but cannot meet the release deadline — how would you act or how have you acted before?

If the workload is large and you cannot meet the deadline, you can:

• Prioritize tasks — identify critical features that must be in the release, and postpone less important ones.
• Discuss with the team and management — perhaps, it is worth rescheduling or increasing resources.
• Break the work into stages — release a minimally viable product, and add other improvements later.
• Optimize the development process — use ready-made libraries, templates, automation.
• Delegate tasks — distribute work among developers.

Previously, the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) methodology was often used — a minimal viable product to release on time and gather feedback.

It is important to honestly assess capabilities and not sacrifice quality for speed.