Developer

Before moving to Agile I worked with Waterfall for around 10 years. Throughout those years I could see people working day and night in development phase. Sometimes teams used to work from 9AM-8PM rhythm non-stop even without knowing why are they doing so.

Whenever product was shipped to customer or whenever any critical production problem occurred, it was quite usual and at the same time pitiful to see team staying entire night to fix the issue.

I heard the word burnout many times. I could see the signs of fatigue on the faces of some people but apart from that I never could understood what burnout actually means.

So here is a story.