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Communication & influence · Pitching ideas

You have one slot in the quarterly product review to convince the exec staff to fund a full year of platform re-architecture that ships no user-visible features. How do you structure the pitch so it survives a room that lives on shipping?

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I open with their pain, not my solution: I put up the last three quarters of incident hours, the feature velocity trend bending down, and the two launches that slipped because the platform couldn't take the load.…

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