And perhaps the biggest takeaway of the whole article, buried in the middle of it: > Instead, if the successes of the MPL team confirm any guiding principle fo

And perhaps the biggest takeaway of the whole article, buried in the middle of it: > Instead, if the successes of the MPL team confirm any guiding principle for the future, it is this: Technical workers—not only engineers but designers—have to be involved with a process from the beginning. They will know that features must be described separately from needs, and that, when building software, smaller teams often perform better than larger teams.