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by closeparen 1800 days ago
You can’t and you shouldn’t. Pressing isn’t how you get more or better software engineering work done.

What can change the game is spending as lavishly as possible on the factors which make a project take extra days. Bad interfaces. Missing documentation. Sharp edges. De-prioritized bugs. Deferred refactors. Commit the greatest number of the most expensive people to work which is not connected to customers, deadlines, or business metrics, but to mitigating their own frustrations and sensibilities. Of course that is anathema to business culture so it’s rarely done.