[PaulKeeble]

Its exactly this. Their approach produced lots of weekends and late nights and broken releases and they could be seen to be fixing things and responding like lightening to every issue. My team on the other hand was 9 to 5, everything just worked when we released it with few bugs and we and the business worked like normal human beings. The problem is that its invisible and there are no heroics, its just good solid engineering. Which considering it was a back end system for a bank is the right way for things to be.

Management likes people who make heroic effort even if they are the cause of needing it they are visibly working hard even if they are making less progress.