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The best case I ever found was insisting that designers and developers sit together without much PM interference. The unplanned communication and collaboration

• corytheboyd 6y ago
  That's awesome to hear! Was that something that you had to fight for, and if so, what did that process look like? My observation with SV startup organizations is that it is very difficult to get that buy-in from product on something like this. These product teams are groups of people trained to believe that "if we deliver X we get $Y", which prioritizes building as many of X in as little time as possible. And I completely agree on that merit, a company SHOULD strive deliver as many revenue generating changes as possible, that's how you avoid death. If, as an engineer, you challenge that with a push to make better reusable systems and actually stick to them, you will always be met by opposition. "What's the ROI?" they will ask. It's hard to give one because it's not really quantitative, but everyone in the room (generally, product included) KNOWS it's the right move. What do you do?