Our engineering team has this thing where we all pretend the technical debt isn't crushing us and every sprint planning meeting feels like theater where we estimate story points knowing full well we'll spend half our time fighting the legacy codebase. Everyone's burned out but we keep saying yes to new features and I don't know how to break this cycle without looking like I'm not a team player.
More people experience this than they realize.
The group is collectively maintaining a fiction about their capacity while individual members suffer under the weight of unspoken reality.
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Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.