Hmmm...I and a few other top developers on a corporate team just left a project and company because we were being mindlessly driven by management.
Management really tried to be accommodating, transparent, and woke in their treatment of employees but the work load was just too much. One sprint into the next without any breath in between.
Tenure averaged about one year on the team. The project has been going without release for three or four years.
The only people left are juniors (college grads basically) who don't realize how bad it is wrecking their health.
The only thing keeping their main SME dev is the generous PTO. She is always out sick, randomly. A lot of it was obviously the stress. She would always let out this lengthy loud exhale on calls and in grooming sessions. When I started doing that I began the exit.
Management really tried to be accommodating, transparent, and woke in their treatment of employees but the work load was just too much. One sprint into the next without any breath in between.
Tenure averaged about one year on the team. The project has been going without release for three or four years.
The only people left are juniors (college grads basically) who don't realize how bad it is wrecking their health.
The only thing keeping their main SME dev is the generous PTO. She is always out sick, randomly. A lot of it was obviously the stress. She would always let out this lengthy loud exhale on calls and in grooming sessions. When I started doing that I began the exit.