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The problem to be solved can be "I have been given a single sentence specification and I have no idea what the boss wants".

The plan B can be "The boss cannot tell me what they want in a succinct way, and/or I am not confident what they want, so I will make various suggestions and get them to choose an option."

The unknown risks - all developers intuitively should know this unless they are very new. Stuff like "this will work, but not effort is going in to how to scale this up later", or "this requires digging up some old code no one has touched for ages, which could explode the time estimated if it is hard to understand that code or refactor it".



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