Death March

What is Death March?


1.

The period of time in a work day from after you take lunch, until the time you leave. Mainly because it seems like the slowest part of the day... and it drags on longer and longer until you actually get to leave. Kind of like waiting on death row.

Steve: Hey Dan this death march really sucks.

Dan: Yea, I know, lets go down to the quick stop at 4.

See work, day, slow, time, afternoon

2.

In the software development industry, a death march is a dysphemism or description for the end phase of a project when a hard deadline has to be met, often to meet an arbitrary ship date leaked to the press and/or the shareholders. Often if a project is off schedule due to mismanagement (as many are), said management will ask team members to work especially grueling hours, weekends (sometimes with a straight face), or by attempting to "throw (enough) bodies at the problem" with varying results, often causing burnout. It is also common for a developer to subsist on flat food while in the midst of a death march.

Bill Gates: The world wants and our shareholders need Vista by Christmas!

Steve Ballmer: We have had our developers on a perma death march for the last three years to ship it and need a few more monthes.

Bill Gates: Just drop development of all the useful features and leave the annoying ones!

See death march, software, engineer, development, programming, flat food

3.

a forced march of POW's or captives that results in a high rate of death.

the japanesse made American and fillopons POW's through Bataan to a camp were most died.


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