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Re:Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021) by shadowgovt on Sunday August 14, 2022 @05:31PM (#32463128)
If anything, that kind of behavior should give the outside world pause and raise questions about the sustainability of any product output.

That mattered less in the days of one artifact software development (and still matters less in areas like video games where that is the case), but software development these days is a process and many projects are far more marathon than sprint.

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Re:Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021) by ryandrake on Sunday August 14, 2022 @05:38PM (#32463205)
> If anything, that kind of behavior should give the outside world pause and raise questions about the sustainability of any product output.

It should give everybody pause, including software practitioners. A separate, but related pet-peeve is how these unsustainable heroics are often rewarded at work!! Boss: "Look at Chris over there--he stayed up until 4:30AM and fixed that ship-blocking bug. What a champ!" Chris gets a $1,000 spot bonus and now the rest of the team looks up to him as an example of good software development. Incredible but it happens almost everywhere!

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