A couple years back the team I was on was behind schedule on a project. We needed to complete the project in 2 months and we expected we had 6 months of work to

A couple years back the team I was on was behind schedule on a project. We needed to complete the project in 2 months and we expected we had 6 months of work to do. So we worked nights and weekends, we had 12 hour calls in which the managers were constantly checking in on. Crunch time. During that time we all worked as one. Focus on one workflow, get it down, move to the next one. We finished on time, and the knowledge sharing that occurred during those 2 months were more than years of knowledge sharing than I had previously. Once we completed the project, we went back to the old style. Productivity dropped like a rock. But during CO-VID we have had glimpses of that crunch style that come when everyone is on a call. Completing a story is so much better when the team completes that story.