The Crunch Mode Paradox

James Golick has an interesting post on his blog entitled “The Crunch Mode Paradox“. The basic premise is that during crunch time, even though your developers are putting in more hours, productivity decreases and the chance of introducing bugs increases dramatically. Any developer who has had to pull a few all nighters before a release date knows that the code written in those wee hours of the night isn’t exactly the cleanest.

This is one you’ll want to send to your manager!