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    Silence. The kind that gets filled with someone saying, “Let’s see if we have room.”

    Then Priya did something unexpected. She closed her laptop.

    Leo nodded. That was a real problem. But so was the memory leak in the reporting engine. And the new compliance field. And the thing no one wanted to talk about: the gnarly refactor they’d been postponing for four sprints.

    They started with payment retry. Five points. Then compliance. Three points. Then reporting. Eight points—big, but doable.

    This Tuesday was no different. The team shuffled into the conference room, coffee in hand, Jira already glowing on the screen. Mia, the product owner, clicked through the backlog with the cheerful precision of someone who had never spent 3 a.m. debugging a race condition.