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A grueling process being forced upon you by circumstances / management that requires an unhealthy amount of hours, stress, etc to achieve to a (potentially unre
by sailfast 10y ago
A grueling process being forced upon you by circumstances / management that requires an unhealthy amount of hours, stress, etc to achieve to a (potentially unreasonable) objective by a certain time.
Likely outcome to meet the criteria is burn-out / resignation / death of personnel, especially if repeated.
In the original context, it is of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March
- BurningFrog 10y agoTo me, the concept also includes that it's all for naught, since the project fails anyway.
- ChristianGeek 10y agoThat's correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(project_management) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(project_managem... The source: https://www.amazon.com/dp/013143635X https://www.amazon.com/dp/013143635X
- enave 10y agoI don't doubt that Bataan is the original, original context, but as far as software engineering goes, the term comes from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-2nd-Edward-Yourdon/dp/013143635X https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-2nd-Edward-Yourdon/dp/013...