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            <title><![CDATA[BDD is a thinking tool. The tests are optional.]]></title>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Most BDD rollouts fail the same way: someone installs Cucumber before anyone understands why. The core of BDD isn't a framework, it's a sentence. Write the scenario before you write the code. Everything else is optional scaffolding.]]></content:encoded>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[SDD tools like GitHub Spec Kit and AWS Kiro solve a real problem. But every one of them starts with a spec already in hand - and nobody asks how it got there.]]></content:encoded>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Teams keep trying to fix their backlogs with better grooming, stricter templates, and more Jira fields. It never works — because the problem isn't in the backlog.]]></content:encoded>
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