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> The thing with voluntary crunch is it becomes institutionalized and part of your company culture. That's exactly what the author argues teams must avoid. His
by fenomas 11y ago
> The thing with voluntary crunch is it becomes institutionalized and part of your company culture.
That's exactly what the author argues teams must avoid. His premise is explicitly that a little crunch isn't harmful as long as it's not an institutionalized part of the company culture.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoA little crunch is harmful too, just less harmful. Crunch is rarely a necessity. If the deadline can't be moved, and you're going to miss it, work on cutting the workload (drop features, etc...). If the project can't have any corners cut, then move the deadline. If neither of these is an option, then do what you have to do and find new managers for the next project, because they should've been more on the ball and planned for potential slippage by giving a time buffer to avoid crunch.
- fenomas 11y agoI don't think the author would disagree. He's saying that if you avoid crunch 99% of the time then crunching for the last 1% isn't very bad and might even be good. He's not saying you can avoid 99% but the last 1% is inevitable.