Discuss Stress on a Systemic Level
The idea for the equation came about when I was suffering from burnout and needed to analyze my stress reactions to understand why this happened.
I had been working as a developer on a team called Cumulus for a couple of years on a world-leading product in logistics optimization and forecasting. We were, however, facing mounting problems related to aging technology and a challenging system architecture that had been growing “organically” for decades.
These challenges hampered our ability to deliver efficiently and limited what new functionality we could realistically add to the product. This, in turn, led to increasingly strained relations between software development and product management that, over time, ...
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