[Verse 1] Sarah's building features faster than the servers can deploy New frameworks every week, her team's becoming quite annoyed The roadmap's full of sparkly things but customers complain The product's crashing more each day, success becomes a strain [Chorus] Check your strategy, does it solve the pain? Vision, focus, scope - these three will keep you sane Bad strategy spreads resources too thin Good strategy wins the battles that matter within S-T-R-A-T-E-G-Y Ask yourself the reason why [Verse 2] Marcus chose the latest database, MongoDB looked so sweet But his team knows PostgreSQL, now deadlines they can't meet Six months to learn new syntax while competitors ship ahead Sometimes boring tech that works beats shiny code instead [Chorus] Check your strategy, does it solve the pain? Vision, focus, scope - these three will keep you sane Bad strategy spreads resources too thin Good strategy wins the battles that matter within S-T-R-A-T-E-G-Y Ask yourself the reason why [Bridge] Bad strategy sounds like wishful dreams "We'll disrupt everything" - nothing's what it seems Good strategy cuts through noise and picks The vital few moves that actually stick [Verse 3] Time-box your experiments, measure what you gain Kill the zombie projects that just multiply your pain Start with customer problems, then reverse engineer The simplest tech solution that makes value crystal clear [Final Chorus] Check your strategy, does it solve the pain? Vision, focus, scope - these three will keep you sane Bad strategy spreads resources too thin Good strategy wins the battles that matter within S-T-R-A-T-E-G-Y Choose your battles, amplify [Outro] Strategy's not about the tech you choose It's knowing which mountains are worth the climb And which ones you can lose
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