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We split spec from design and design from tickets. Here's what we learned about putting them back together.

For a decade the design tool, the doc tool, and the ticket tool were three separate products. The transitions between them took 30% of every product team's calendar. We rebuilt the workflow into one file. A long writeup of what changed and what didn't.

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