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Oh, I wasn't meaning to suggest that all problems are solvable by throwing more resources at it, that clearly isn't the case.

But it's super common for a team to be asked to do something fundamentally outside their scope, and the asking client/boss not realizing that they are doin g it.

"Figure it out" as a useful strategy sort of assumes that both sides of the equation are clued in about this and roughly on the same page.

"I underwrote a great team, you should be able to figure this out (stop whining about it being hard)" is a fundamentally different statement than "Why can't you just do X, how hard can it be?"

It's also worth remembering that the plural of "resource" is not "team".



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