Unfortunately, there are a lot of dysfunctional working environments out there, where this wouldn't be considered "normal". Of course, in those environments, d

Unfortunately, there are a lot of dysfunctional working environments out there, where this wouldn't be considered "normal". Of course, in those environments, developers cannot say "no", they can either keep working under whatever unreasonable constraints they have, or quit. (I've found this a lot more common in companies where the main focus isn't software development) I agree it's not very revolutionary, but I still find it useful to read about how other people organize their teams and how it works, and very especially what tools they use (Slack and a few others are on my to-try list).