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Infra cleanup works really well as a Blended project
Consider future projects: Phase 2, Old Mongo deprecation
Async conversations via email, PRs, and shared Slack channels worked well for this project - very little synchronous conversation
Low meeting overhead left more time to get project work done
Working in an area that few understand (internally as well as externally) can lead to delays - bottlenecks are likely, and we’re highly constrained on how work can be distributed.
Failure of common/lib/xmodule tests could have spelled disaster for the project (fortunately everything was OK) - but test infrastructure needs to be robust for intensive projects like this