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Once upon a time there was a small village with three managers. Each day, at sunset, they’d gather and tell stories of their team’s accomplishments. Every one better than the last. Until one day a curse was cast upon them all, shrouding each manager’s team in a cloud. Within the cloud people struggled, argued and fought. What the team used to be able to complete in a day took a week or even a month.
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