The pattern is depressingly familiar.
The team successfully ships under pressure. Leadership notices.
'See? They can do it when they push.' So the next deadline is tighter.
And the next. The 'stretch' becomes the baseline.
What was once an exceptional effort becomes the expectation. The team adapts—not by becoming more productive, but by cutting corners.
Code quality drops. Testing becomes cursory.
Documentation disappears. Knowledge sharing stops because there's no time.
Then people leave. Not the underperformers—the best people leave first.
They have options. They don't have to work like this.
The remaining team is smaller, so the pressure increases. More people leave.
The cycle accelerates until you're left with a skeleton crew of people who can't leave, shipping low-quality work under constant deadline pressure.
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