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How engineering teams can break chronic overcommitment cycles

Our engineering team has been working insane hours to hit this release deadline and everyone is burned out but we keep saying 'just one more sprint' and I can see people starting to check out mentally. We're all complicit in this cycle where we overcommit and then grind ourselves down to deliver, but no one wants to be the one to say we should cut scope or push the date.

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Your team keeps grinding through burnout because no one will say the deadline is unrealistic.

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