This is a good point. We did have a heavy up-front design phase for any projects between these teams, and it mitigated lots of problems before any code was writ

This is a good point. We did have a heavy up-front design phase for any projects between these teams, and it mitigated lots of problems before any code was written. This helped modify the conversations to a back-and-forth about specific implementation details instead of "you need to completely throw this out and do something else"