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I didn't have time to go over all 50 but I do like #3, "I have confirmed that someone else can articulate what problem I am trying to solve."

Too often I see devs go down some deep rabbit hole to solve a problem no user has ever had, and I wish they'd have talked to me first about it.

But the author of this article could have generalized a lot here, many of these could be summed up by the (admittedly less interesting) "I know how to communicate clearly and do so frequently with my team."



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