Great comment, I have been looking at doing something like this in my own case. You target a single customer / stakeholder, and suddenly stopping the world is l

Great comment, I have been looking at doing something like this in my own case. You target a single customer / stakeholder, and suddenly stopping the world is less damaging because you're only stopping / slowing development for a smaller segment of your business. That also means you can time it to align with that segment's needs, trying to find a good stretch of downtime where you can get to work. (This would be impossible for the whole business). If you pick the right customer, you get a good blend of reduced scope (you don't have to solve EVERY problem) without being too narrow (you can't just work on the fun parts - you have to fully solve the problem for that stakeholder, forcing you to think through all of the boring stuff that will need to be figured out).