You are asked by your manager to deliver software to a schedule that you know can only be met by asking your project team to work unpaid overtime.
All team members have young children.
Discuss whether you should accept this demand from your manager or whether you should persuade your team to give their time to the organization rather than to their families.
What factors might be significant in your decision?
whether or not you like spending time with your family. Not everyone does.
no don't shut up. squeeky wheel gets the oil.
just s--- it up and do what your manager tells you or quit.
you need to money to pay for the runts braces so shut up and do the work heads down
Why is this question even relevant on this board? Why don't you ask it on some other company's board or on quora?
All good responses IMHO
What is the manager's responsibility for the project? Intel is not transparent and honest on manager's responsibility. Will the manager get SL4/5 if the project does not go well?
You ask your project team what they think by when the software can be delivered, based on a sustainable work pace. Ask them to make that estimate challenging but reasonable. Give that estimate to your manager. Leave it at that.
If your manager „demands“ that you work faster, ask for a reduction in the scope of the task or otherwise indicate that quality will have to suffer.The idea that software developers can magically work faster without sacrificing quality or scope is one of the last great myths among managers who shouldn‘t be manageing software development.
If your manager tells you that schedule, scope and quality are fixed, just shrug and start working without putting in unsustainable overtime. What do you think will happen if your team exceeds the deadline by, say, two weeks? Will they all get fired? Or will your manager see it as the typical delay that you have in every software project?
I would persuade my manager to add xx% bandwidth to the schedule depending on the significant of that software to recognition. And give my team half of the extra and keep the other half for a mini software QA as last touch. As a project manager it's your job to balance both. If what you do is just saying yes without effort to ensure success and challenging the urgency of your manager's ask, you don't have to be around as the middle man. just saying.
No such thing as unpaid OT, IMO. We get paid well as exempt professionals so, some OT to ensure success of the business is part of the gig. But, Intel sometimes (often?) Demands overtime for sketchy reasons like just appearances sake. I think significant OT requests, say more than 50hr weeks, should be reserved for true emergencies or similar circumstances that make an impact. In recent years it seems we struggle to differentiate emergencies or opportunities from appearances.
I also believe the complaints of being forced to work major OT are often overstated by the complainer. For appearance sake.