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If the technical people don't understand the tradeoffs and prioritize the business' actual needs (sometimes even above the business' stated wants), why do you t
by lostcolony 9y ago
If the technical people don't understand the tradeoffs and prioritize the business' actual needs (sometimes even above the business' stated wants), why do you think a non-technical person (which is 100% of the POs I've encountered) will be able to?
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoBecause the non-technical person has time to dedicate to learning about business' needs while the technical person is busy doing technical stuff for most of their day.
- lostcolony 9y agoAnd then they have to communicate that to the dev team, and sit with the dev team to come up with proper stories, which effectively saves little to no time (and leads to a game of telephone; is what the PO telling you -really- what the business needs or just what they heard the business tell them they wanted?). Or, be technical enough that they don't need to communicate it to the dev team in the first place but can just write the stories. I've yet to encounter one sufficiently technical
- geofft 9y agoBecause technical people aren't often incentivized to prioritize the business' actual needs. This isn't about skillset, it's about how long you're going to stick around at the company if you're doing a different job from what management expects you to be doing.