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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

35 pointsby 1d agosujithjay.com
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12h agoHN ↗

"inventing work" = "requirements engineering"

"Inventing work" is a strange phrase to use imho.

5h agoHN ↗

I was thinking the same thing. The word that I would be more inclined to use is used multiple times throughout the article. Discovery.