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Draft: Why Support works within the constraints of the product

Lyle Kozloff requested to merge lyle-add-why-work-within-product into master

Why is this change being made?

Let it be said, that I have been a frequent perpetrator of temporary workarounds that have become standard practice.

My hope is that this page will document some reasons for why we should:

  • work closely with product managers to appropriately prioritize bugs and feature requests
  • avoid creating workarounds outside of the product
  • use our skills within the context of the product to get better customer and internal stakeholder results

If I'd had such a page, I might have directed solutions differently in the past.

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