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On a previous team building an internal reporting tool, product wanted highly customizable reports for 200+ analysts, QA was pushing hard for strict validation, and operations was focused on keeping our ETL pipeline under a 30-minute SLA. The first proposal tried to do everything and would have added ~40% more load to our warehouse. I pulled everyone into a working session with actual metrics: current pipeline duration, query costs, and top user workflows. We agreed to split requirements into two phases. For V1, we shipped 5 pre-defined, high-usage report templates with strict validation and query time limits. That kept pipeline impact under 10% while still unblocking analysts for 80% of their use cases. In parallel, we designed a guarded “advanced mode” for power users with feature flags and stronger monitoring. By framing it as explicit trade-offs with data, rather than opinions, we got consensus and shipped V1 on time.
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