When you have so much work to be done, and it is all done on the fly with no

• Standards and Manual Work, the priority of tasks keeps changing. Do this now, no stop that and do this.  You are constantly
• Task switching. This leads to
• Partially done work. Nothing gets really completed on time. Everything gets late. The customer is
• Waiting for their solution longer. Since it takes so long to get to the customer, and we are under the pump, we make mistakes, cut corners, this introduces
• Defects that need to be fixed. The buggy code goes back to development, then testing, then UAT again, it is constantly in
• Motion. The software is so buggy. we introduce gated changes and procedures and other
• Extra Processes to prevent issues. The deadline looms. Nothing is complete, everyone stays back late into the night and they work weekends. Their
• Heroics is astounding. We finally ship. We planned everything up front. Did everything the customer initially specified. Oh no! they didn’t really need those
• Extra Features that we spent months building. It had no business value, it was just a nice to have.