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On a data platform project, we were mid‑sprint when our sales VP requested two new reporting views that “had to” ship with the upcoming release. It would have blown our sprint by about 40%. Instead of saying yes or no on the spot, I pulled the tech lead and product owner into a quick impact huddle, sized the work, and identified one lower‑value story we could safely move to the next sprint. I then brought the VP into a 20‑minute conversation, walked through the trade‑offs with a simple capacity view, and proposed a compromise: deliver the critical view now, push the second one to the following sprint, and add a temporary manual report as a stopgap. He agreed. We hit the original sprint goal, kept our 92% sprint completion rate, and still delivered the first new view in production on time. The second one followed two weeks later without any weekend work or burnout.
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