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Keys to Success in Using Voluntary Overtime

Here are the keys to success in using Voluntary Overtime:

Use a developer-pull approach rather than a leader-push approach.
Tap into developer motivations such as achievement, possibility for growth, work itself, personal life, and technical-supervision opportunity to increase the amount of voluntary overtime that developers want to work.
Ask for an amount of overtime that you can actually get.
Beware of developers working too much overtime, regardless of the reason.

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