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I don't think that is what a death march means.

A death march is a dead-end project where everyone thinks it likely fails, but nobody says anything. Everyone is still marching. This often happens with a migration-like project.

Sprint is just a project management style which is appropriate when a lot of things are uncertain (e.g. user need, budget).



A death march is walking until you fall over dead.

In code terms it’s busting your ass and hurting your health to try to push out a release - which may or may not connect with users.


Disagree. I once worked at a place where 'death march' was an entirely appropriate description of a significant portion of the normal annual development cycle of a very successful product.

Of course they didn't call it that, but that's exactly what it was nonetheless.




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