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    "text": "So then we thought, why don't we just remove ourselves from that first stage? And … do that work instead. So we did. And we gave him some instructions on how an Epic should be specified. It needs to have a description. It needs to have some acceptance criteria. … needs to have some certain level of confidence on how to implement it. And if … doesn't have that, he won't start. Then he will just ask a question back to the product owner, … him or her, and try to figure out the stuff he needs to be able to continue.",
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