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When teams get stuck in cycles of unrealistic planning and inevitable burnout

Our product team has this pattern where we commit to aggressive deadlines in planning meetings and then spend the next six weeks in a slow-motion panic, cutting corners and burning out, but somehow we keep doing it every quarter. I think we all know the estimates are wrong when we make them but there's this collective pretense that this time will be different.

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Your team keeps setting deadlines everyone knows are impossible, then pays for it in panic every quarter.

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