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1. Why crunch mode doesn't work: 6 lessons

   

   Topic by poopinmymouth · Feb 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   http://www.igda.org/articles/erobinson_crunch.php Great article from the latest IGDA newsletter. My favorate quote, and the one I have found to be true first hand. "They (managers) crunch because they have learned only the importance of appearing to do their best to instead of really of doing their best."

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   Reply by PaK · Mar 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   As soon as you have acrunch mode it means your managers and schedulers have a lot to learn about managing and scheduling. My favorite was pro-active crunch time at my last workplace: "let's crunch now so we dont have to crunch later" What a fuckin' asshole he was. -R

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   Reply by Mark Dygert · Mar 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   WOW thats a GREAT artical! While I haven't worked crunch mode in the industry "yet". THe company I work for now likes to put everyone on 9hr days 7 days a week from Dec1-Feb1. After the first week or two just about everyone is brain dead and the "dumb answers" everyone is handing out just to get to the next call sky…

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   Reply by oXYnary · Mar 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   anonymously I hope?

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   Reply by ndcv · Mar 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   I think this article is different from most I've read in its citing. Most of them just accept it as common sense, which however true is not very persuasive; this one actually cites scientific studies. That puts it into a different ballpark (a more effective one).

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   Reply by oXYnary · Mar 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   So what would happen upon them saying such you printing a copy of the summary and leaving it on their desk?

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   Reply by Slayerjerman · Mar 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   You'd be surprised how many times ive heard that said "lets crunch now so we dont have to later..." And everytime it turns out that the early crunch was just to prepare for the later crunch. Worst part of it all is when your lead/boss makes you feel like shit for leaving early after a 10hour+ day. I had this one lead that…

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   Reply by Badge · Feb 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   makes me feel less guilty about wanting to sleep until 10 mins before i to clock in

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   Reply by Daz · Feb 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   Agreed. We could have a gazillion of these articles written with increasingly decorative prose. It doesn't change the fact that it's just us lot that care or read them, not the executives that need to.

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    Reply by jzero · Feb 2005 · Home› General Discussion

    Oh my GOD. It has a freaking EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. That's where the author sums it all up in an easily-readable chunk at the front, so that those who are so high up on the chain that they are too busy, fast-moving or illiterate to actually bother to read the article. Shows you who the real target of the article is. Hey, but…