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On my last team, we had six weeks to ship a churn prediction feature for our B2B product, tied to a Q4 revenue target. I pulled together a small squad: two backend engineers, one data engineer, a PM, and myself. I started by mapping a minimal end-to-end slice: data pipeline, training pipeline, real-time scoring API, and UI surfaces. We wrote a one-page spec with explicit API contracts, SLAs (p99 < 150ms), and an agreed “v1” scope. To manage dependencies, I set up a simple RACI and a weekly risk review focused on data readiness and integration. We feature-flagged the endpoint so backend could integrate against a stub while the data engineer and I stabilized the model. When there was pushback on including complex sequence features, I proposed shipping a simpler model first and A/B testing the richer version later. We launched on time, lifted retention by 7%, and iterated on the more advanced model in the following sprint.
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