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The Gap Between Requirements and Reality Early in my career, I watched a project burn through two sprints on a feature that looked perfect in the demo but collapsed the moment a real user touched it. The product owner had signed off, the scrum team had checked every box in the definition of done, and the stakeholders were thrilled with the demo. But nobody had asked the hard question: did the feature actually do what the user needed it to do? That is the moment I learned t