We've got that at my day job right now.  The deadline is artificially imposed by the big trade show, the research and product teams take their time in figuring out what they want to debut at the trade show, they ask the devs to do it, the devs say "there's not enough time before the trade show," and chaos ensues. 😅 

 Demo Mode™ 

 yeah, my most recent "release" was that

i already knew by that point it couldn't stand up to 24 hours running, but perfectly fine and great without many users on it