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63 lines
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# Jeff DeWitte
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## Role
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Current direct manager for the active Fidelity project.
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## Historical Collaboration Pattern
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- Repeatedly acted as reporting manager, reviewer, and communication gatekeeper across multi-year XFlow work
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- Frequently rewrote PR descriptions, Jira updates, and cross-team messages before they were sent
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- Regularly redirected work based on release risk, consumer pressure, or manager/stakeholder expectations
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- Often pushed for explicit distinction between framework bugs, consumer bugs, service issues, and scope creep
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## Communication Requirements
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- Native US English
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- Prefers clear, concise updates
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- Needs accurate scope, not vague reassurance
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- Frequently asks for precise reproducibility, auth context, and regression scope
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## What Good Updates Include
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1. Context
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2. Observation
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3. Action
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Good updates usually clarify:
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- what issue or task is being discussed
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- whether the behavior is reproducible
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- whether auth state matters
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- whether this looks like an external issue or a regression
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- what the next step is
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## Influence On Work
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- Story titles, points, and scope discussions with Jeff are often worth remembering
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- Jeff approvals can change what belongs in current state or work-item memory
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- Jeff feedback is often a signal to tighten wording before communicating externally
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- Jeff often asks for evidence, reproduction detail, and exact next action before approving external communication
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## Repeated Coaching / Expectations
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- Test in the closest real consumer environment first when the issue is consumer-specific; use sample app mainly to rule ownership in or out
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- Do not open or socialize a PR as "ready" until the issue is fully resolved and no obvious follow-up bug has been introduced
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- Separate current-ticket scope from unrelated preexisting bugs; do not blur them in standups or status updates
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- Be explicit about environment, branch/build/version, account, flow entry point, and repro steps before concluding where a bug belongs
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- When blocked, keep reducing uncertainty with other available evidence sources instead of waiting passively
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- Fast admin/process actions matter: update Jira/status/comments promptly when others are visibly waiting on them
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- Prefer evidence-heavy communication: screenshots, videos, exact error text, branch/version, and direct comparisons to main/web/UIKit/Fid4 when relevant
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- Use polished native-sounding English for external-facing comments; avoid sending rough wording when a cleaner version is easy to produce
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- When a consumer issue may actually belong to another team/framework, document the finding clearly and route ownership instead of carrying it indefinitely in XFlow
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