You're an eng manager. Your staff engineer and a partner team's staff engineer are in an open conflict over an API design, both with legitimate points, and it's stalled the roadmap for three weeks. Both escalate to you in the same week. How do you resolve it?

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Stay specific. One example, told well, beats three told fast. Make your decisions visible — what you chose between. End on what changed, for whom.

You're an eng manager. Your staff engineer and a partner team's staff engineer are in an open conflict over an API design, both with legitimate points, and it's stalled the roadmap for three weeks. Both escalate to you in the same week. How do you resolve it?

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