You need to understand the scope of what you are working on. For example, right now I am "just" getting another field from an entity in a 3rd party API. That fi

You need to understand the scope of what you are working on. For example, right now I am "just" getting another field from an entity in a 3rd party API. That field is a reference. Immediately I have questions like: 1. Do I get this in one call or several? If former, will this cause issues with the cache? If latter, will it decrease performance? 2. At what level do I want to do the filtering, at the query or higher level? 3. How will this affect existing calls, etc? Breaking this down into questions is called "chunking" - grouping multi-parameter unknowns until they are simple. The problem is that if you can only keep 5 things in mind, you may outright miss questions to ask, or, at the very least, you will spend more time on a task than a person with a higher WM.