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In an office building, in the middle of somewhere, a company sits.

It is building a product. An ambitious product. Software to end all software - a tool to integrate all the systems.

The team is (the expected amount) competent, the runway is short but exists, and the CEO has sold a dozen impossible features, two dozen possible but extremely difficult ones, some plausible ones, and one that the prototype can succesfully perform.

So business as usual for a fledgling product company.

And the company is having their - business as usual - weekly sprint planning.

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"Everyone's here, except Apricot?", Orange frowns. "He should be in office today. Anyone seen him?"

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"Not today, he missed lunch. But it's still five minutes until the scheduled meeting. He's never actually late."

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And about fifteen seconds later, Apricot stumbles out of a storage room of cleaning supplies. There are more and less subtle signs that he has just woken up.

"Good morning everyone!" he proclaims. "Orange, how did the call with the" - yaaaaawn - blinking - "eeehm, bank API provider go?"

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"Afternoon. Quite well, I'd say. We'll still need to negotiate an actual contract, but we're getting access to the sandbox environment today, so you can start integrating it immediately."

He flips open his laptop, navigating to the kanban board tracking high-level tasks. The section marked "backlog" has been expanding in a worrying pace. He nervously reorders some of the items on the bottom, before turning eyes to the "in progress" section. "Ok, lets go through the updates. Vanilla, you first?"

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Vanilla also has her laptop open.

"Morning! And yeah that works. Just a second." 

Keyboard noises. Vanilla quickly browses through the assigned tickets and checks what was marked completed last week.

"The new interface prototype is progressing. Completed navigable prototypes for three different approaches but we're not quite sure which approach to commit iterating on and for building the more complex features with."

"The next steps for the interface development are otherwise clear for this week but I'm unsure how last weeks plans compare to the new backlog items, might need to address that, and additionally choose one of the three approaches today."