Urgency inflation is the default state of platform teams. Interviewers score whether you replace shouting with a shared queue, verified impact, and tradeoffs the requesters can see.
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Everything on your board is marked urgent by somebody. How do you decide what actually gets done this sprint?
Urgency inflation is the default state of platform teams. Interviewers score whether you replace shouting with a shared queue, verified impact, and tradeoffs the requesters can see.
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