Hero engineers can be deadly to team culture, it’s time to retire those capes

Unless the problem actually IS that people aren’t working as expected, working harder will most likely result in two things: you and your team failing to understand how you work (especially planning and estimation) and the birth of a deadly caste: the Hero Engineer. Most other engineers are actually happy that you’re taking a lead on these projects and bugs, some might have been too hard to tackle for them, or they are simply swamped with their current projects. You can try other ways, such as reducing scope or asking for help from other teams (NOT overtime, but conscious, planned help), or if all else fails and the business’ life does depend on this single project (quite unlikely) you can get the team in a room and ask them to a crunch – but if you choose this last resort be sure that you:

Some of them can still be converted back to regular engineers, but it’s going to take lots of hand-holding.

Source: ochronus.online