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For whatever reason, I think most developers and development leads believe that their businesses want them to work at a hectic pace where they essentially disengage their brains and their good judgment and simply work as hard and as fast as they can even if that means working stupid, and I think that?s very unfortunate. The businesses don?t really want that, of course, but for some reason the developers and project leaders seem to think the businesses want that, and so I think that something gets lost in the translation between the business leaders and the project leaders. "Software Engineering," Steve McConnell interview