> good quality code can increase the chance of meeting deadlines, but working long hours can also increase the chance of meeting deadlines.
No, that's not true, except in a very superficial sense. Yes long hours _can_ increase the chance of meeting deadlines... but often, it doesn't - or more precisely, it only works if the code quality is decent.
"Code quality" is not about following whatever patterns are en vogue today, or using the latest dev language. It is mostly about simplicity - dealing with few things at a time, and making those things explicit. If you need to understand the entire solution, and the entire domain model, and all the edge cases before making the tiniest of modifications - long hours are not going to help you.
To go back to microservices: many companies claim to build microservices, but actually build a distributed monolith. This doesn't help productivity, it actively harms it.
As peopleware says, overtime is never free. Yes, it definitely can help you meet deadlines if its done every so often, but if its a regular thing, then “normal” productivity will be much lower, so it can’t sustainably help meet deadlines again and again and again.
No, that's not true, except in a very superficial sense. Yes long hours _can_ increase the chance of meeting deadlines... but often, it doesn't - or more precisely, it only works if the code quality is decent.
"Code quality" is not about following whatever patterns are en vogue today, or using the latest dev language. It is mostly about simplicity - dealing with few things at a time, and making those things explicit. If you need to understand the entire solution, and the entire domain model, and all the edge cases before making the tiniest of modifications - long hours are not going to help you.
To go back to microservices: many companies claim to build microservices, but actually build a distributed monolith. This doesn't help productivity, it actively harms it.