“Most of this is really great. I’d like to work this way, but I can’t because I have to keep the backlogs full for our login API. If I don’t do that, my developers won’t have anything to do.” “Is it a new API?” I asked. “Are there massive issues with it right now that you’re trying to fix?” Turns out there were no major problems with it. It had been working fine. “What’s your goal? When do you know that your API is done and that you can move on to something else?” “Oh, no, no, no,” she said. “This is what I own. This API is what our team owns, and we’ll never get something different. This is
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