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by ncmncm 1473 days ago
It can be quite effective after the fact. Our 500x engineer had no reason to pad, and every reason to avoid wasting time writing anything nonfunctional.

In the event, he assigned two-week tasks, and where not done on time he would do them himself over the weekend. During the two weeks, he would do up to ten such tasks, despite that he reserved the harder tasks for himself.