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Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere


When every dev is just doing the next ticket, who’s steering the ship?

You opened your laptop, fired up the sprint board, and grabbed the next ticket in the “Ready” column. Features ship, bugs creep back in, and the codebase becomes an archaeological dig of short-term fixes and forgotten context. When I work with teams, I’m not adding frameworks, ceremonies, or new ways to track the same pain.

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