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When teams get stuck in permanent crisis mode

Our product team has been in crisis mode for eight months and we keep saying we'll address our process problems after we ship but we keep extending deadlines and I'm watching people burn out while we pretend this is temporary.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your team keeps promising to fix its problems after the next launch while people burn out.

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