True. In some cases it can also mean that the team needs to limit the scope and focus on what really matters.

Sure, there's lots of startups burning the midnight oil to finish that MVP. But especially on more mature teams, it's incredibly easy to lose focus when doing software and spend several days on shitty features that don't really matter at all to customers, but are being prioritised due to inertia or capricious management.

Yap, I’m leading a project that could use more engineers (just two of us) cuz it’s going to be tight to hit an upcoming scaling deadline. But the thought of spending my time ramping up other engineers at this point doesn’t sound good.

One liner of the day. That's the best possible way to make this point.