Every project I’ve been on goes through periods of crunchtime, at which point process goes out the window and it all becomes word of mouth. The team chat app be

Every project I’ve been on goes through periods of crunchtime, at which point process goes out the window and it all becomes word of mouth. The team chat app becomes a firehose of information and if I look away for a minute, I miss something important and end up working on something that someone else is already working on. Developers become an extension of the team lead who effectively becomes the sole thinker and commander of his little army of code monkeys. It’s like being a unit in Command & Conquer. And all because of an arbitrary deadline to build a demo for internal stakeholders, which sets up the project for ultimate failure.