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It’s also extremely productive.

Management always thinks a new web report / dashboard will solve all the problems.

Team then spends a week or month building said report into system.

Only to find that it doesn’t help anything. Six months of iterations later it’s correct and useful.

Or have someone build a one off report in excel. Iterate a few times that afternoon until it’s correct. Then it’s handed off to developers. Avoiding months of rework.



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