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Some things are incredibly important but not directly related to the customer; like services called by service called by services called by clients. It's not always easy to connect the dots especially in a micro service world. But without the ultimate service the customer can't do anything.

Making good tickets across a dozen organizations and 100's of people is hard to ever get right. Which is why counting tickets is sort of pointless, you might have a ticket to add a single value to a database and without it, the whole product doesn't work, but you have no idea since there are 10 layers between you and the real customer.