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A product team wants to contribute a feature to your platform rather than wait for your roadmap. How do you let them?

Saying yes without a contribution contract produces features the platform team did not design and now supports forever, on call, at 3am.

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Saying yes without a contribution contract produces features the platform team did not design and now supports forever, on call, at 3am.

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