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And suddenly reduce the velocity of all other teams because whoops it turns out those low priority projects were dependencies of everyone else.


I worry about any company that doesn’t track priority and severity separately. Priority is political, and often bullshit (everything is top priority!) but some tasks, if not completed, are company killers, and some just embarrass a loud-mouthed salesperson in front of a customer.




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