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You are leading an engineering team that is under pressure to ship a high-visibility release tied to an upcoming business milestone. Midway through the work, you discover a decision that would improve team effectiveness, reduce future rework, or lower operational risk, but it will push the release out in the short term. The choice is not purely technical: product, sales, and leadership all care about the date, and you need to decide whether to absorb the delay or keep moving with known debt.
Tell me about a time you had to make a decision that improved the team but slowed down delivery in the short term.
