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Create delivery focused ephemeral feature teams: For example, implementing GDPR in the front-end and back-end, required a couple of people from each expertise. A recent article, dug into why breaking a role into multiple titles is a bad idea that hurts the business (more bottlenecks) and individuals (turning to cogs that only fit special machines). Fortunately we had 30 days of vacation (de facto standard in Sweden) and a dedicated development time (a percentage of the paid hours that can be spent to sharpen the axe), but still the risk of burnout was very real.

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