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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

dawngreeter@dice.camp ("Marko Vujnovic") wrote:

@Daojoan Speaking as a dev manager, and entirely putting aside that it is simply decent to ensure your team has a healthy work-life balance... death march to delivery is the only way to be certain you will fail.

Overtime in a bind will move the needle for about two weeks. After that, you are lucky if 12 hours gets you what a well rested engineer will do in 8. A month after that, measurably, demonstrably bad decisions are being made due to exhaustion.