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.
More people experience this than they realize.
Your team keeps setting deadlines everyone knows are impossible, then pays for it in panic every quarter.
“Where Are You with Revenue Operations?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.