> But people being eager to please, and mostly unwillingness to be the one team blocking the entire project - meant that folks worked hard to meet some of these

> But people being eager to please, and mostly unwillingness to be the one team blocking the entire project - meant that folks worked hard to meet some of these targets. It was extremely hard. It was a bit stressful. It felt crazy at times. But it got done in half the time I would have initially expected such a complex project to take. Some others have suggested that this might not be sustainable or lead to a sense of personal fulfillment and satisfaction to everyone. Even moreso, that might just accelerate burnout for some, which probably needs to be taken into account. I remember single handedly shipping around 70 versions of the homepage for Apturi Covid (https://apturicovid.lv/#en https://apturicovid.lv/#en), the Latvian contact tracing app, back when we thought that contact tracing would be a viable way to limit the spread of COVID enough for it to die out. I did work a lot, it was a fast paced environment where around 100 professionals in the industry were allowed to collaborate to solve a problem to the best of our abilities and it indeed did result in a positive outcome at the end, the infrastructure, mobile apps and website all being developed in record time, working successfully up until this day and being handed off to the corresponding ministry with no problems. In contrast, our national e-Health system has been in development for years, has cost around 14.5 million euros so far and still doesn't work: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-e-veselibas-galveno-diagnozi-atzist-slikto-planosanu-un-vadisanu.a350191/?_x_tr_sl=lv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=lt&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-e... It's actually so bad that they're considering creating a new one to replace it, something that could have probably been avoided with enough care: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/zinu-analize/e-veselibu-radis-no-jauna-izmaksas-meramas-miljonos.a396672/?_x_tr_sl=lv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=lt&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/zinu-analize/... Actually, i'm pretty sure that if the software were better (not even excellent, just good), a single server rack could probably maintain the entire system (failover aside) and serve the requests for the entire country, which has just 2 million people in it. Yet, it seems that they lacked the "secret sauce" that made our own project successful instead. Of course, as someone who's single handedly leading an enterprise transformation and doing everything from modernizing enterprise apps in a project, to improving their security, migrating over to new tech, introducing containers, service meshes, APM, additional observability etc., i don't think that time pressure is always all that you're looking for. After all, you want those that perform highly to be able to do so sustainably.