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When teams avoid difficult prioritization conversations

Our startup team has this pattern where we all get excited about new features in our weekly meetings but then nothing actually gets built because we never want to be the person who says no to someone else's idea. We have seventeen things in our backlog marked as 'high priority' and I'm starting to think we're all just being polite to death.

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Your team is too nice to say no, so nothing ever actually gets built.

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