Build a recovery plan after a crunch
Create a concrete recovery plan that restores resources after high demand.
After a two-week launch push, the team ships at 11:30 p.m. Thursday. On Friday, the manager says, "Please rest this weekend," while Monday already has six planning meetings. Recovery must be designed into the calendar and work queue. The trap is verbal recovery: telling people to rest while the system immediately refills every recovered hour. That teaches the team that recovery is private responsibility, not job design. Inventory depleted resources Name what the crunch consumed: sleep, focus time, decision energy, peer patience, or backlog hygiene. You cannot restore what you do not name. Cancel or defer before adding Remove two…
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