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It's never just that simple

We have banned certain words, and spent a ton of time disciplining other departments into considering how they approach development with suggestions.
“Why can’t we just do x, y and z, it seems like a simple thing”.
Yes, putting in another button is a simple thing. Making that button actually do something meaningful is a different story.
It helped emphasizing that even though a feature is small and easy to make, it still goes through the same steps as everything else:
Which in very broad terms is:
Planning --&gt; Coding --&gt; Reviewing --&gt; Testing
Specifying the steps in each of these phases helps even further. A button is never just a button.

This hits home. People usually mean well with “why don’t you just…”, but it can come off like all the complexity—and effort—has been overlooked. Most problems aren’t simple, and if the quick fix worked, we’d have used it already. Thanks for the reminder to lead with curiosity, not assumptions. GREAT READ!👏

so let them be stuck on a issue for 7 days because they might cry like a baby when you give them a solution jesus