When I asked for help fixing a customer problem, the team was occupied with acquiring new customers. I wondered whether the fix had been set aside before anyone compared its merits.
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Once, when I asked another team to help fix a customer problem, I was told they had no capacity because they were working on acquiring new customers. I wondered if the two kinds of work had ever been weighed against each other. A proposal can be set aside before anyone gets to estimate its impact.