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Re:It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting year... by jedberg on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:18PM (#20628536)
You need to better presenting your research. If you've done two days of research presumably you have 10+ hours of work to summarize.

"I talked to person A, who said we need featured X,Y, and Z. Then I talked to person B, who said they need A, B, and C, but feature C and Y aren't compatible with each other, so I'll need to reconcile that".

or

"We'll need to use third-party products A, B, and C. B has the API we need, but I'm still waiting to hear back from the C's vendor to see if they support API call foo."

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Re:It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting year... by itronitron on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:35PM (#20628668)
>> I talked to person A, who said... Then I talked to person B, who said...

this has the added benefit of discouraging most developers from being willing to take over the task

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