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When your team enables unrealistic expectations

Our engineering team always says yes to impossible deadlines and then works weekends to hit them and leadership loves us for it but I think we're teaching the company that engineering estimates don't matter and I don't know how to break this cycle.

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Your team keeps saying yes to impossible deadlines, and it's wearing everyone down.

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