On: "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign...

[danielharan]

Work that can't be done because of dependencies, long release cycles instead of incremental delivery, planned escalating work load...

What part of that do you think is NOT broken?

[sliverstorm → danielharan]

It may not be the romantic ideal, but I don't see the fix. Try as you might, some work has dependency trees.

About all I can think of is over-hiring, or release cycles could be extended, but for us TTM is pretty sensitive.