Complaints measure volume and confidence, not cost. The loudest team is usually the one most comfortable complaining, which is not the same as the one losing the most time.
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Your platform roadmap is whatever engineers last complained about in Slack. How do you decide what to build?
Complaints measure volume and confidence, not cost. The loudest team is usually the one most comfortable complaining, which is not the same as the one losing the most time.
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