Get The Hell Out Of There!
When a highly esteemed project manager starts a project kickoff meeting with something like: “Our objective is to develop the cheapest product and get it out to the customer as quickly as possible to minimize the financial risk to the company“, and nobody in attendance (including you) bats an eyelash or points out the fact that the proposed approach conflicts with the company’s core values, my advice to you is to do as the title of this post says: “get the hell out of there (you spineless moe-foe)!”. Conjure up your communication skills and back out of the project – in a politically correct way, of course. If you get handcuffed into the job via externally imposed coercion or guilt inducing torture techniques (a.k.a corpo waterboarding), then, then, then……. good luck sucka! I’ll see you in hell.
The bitterness of poor system performance remains long after the sweetness of low prices and prompt delivery are forgotten. – Jerry Lim
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Going on a death march too many times will ruin ones life. The projects that purposely avoid a good product development cycle usually cause major problems for all those involved later on. If you have an exit strategy then you are good. Get out when the you can claim it “All was going well when I left.” Don’t gloat, don’t do a I told you so, just get away.
My advice is (if you have the option) to get out *before* embarking on a death march as soon as you “feel” that the project will be a death march. Sadly, young people with no experience and boundless enthusiasm don’t know when they’re about to take a stroll through hell with the reaper.