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danielharan on Aug 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign...

Work that can't be done because of dependencies, long release cycles instead of incremental delivery, planned escalating work load...

What part of that do you think is NOT broken?

sliverstorm on Aug 18, 2011 [–]

It may not be the romantic ideal, but I don't see the fix. Try as you might, some work has dependency trees.

About all I can think of is over-hiring, or release cycles could be extended, but for us TTM is pretty sensitive.

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