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>everyone should be working together to make a better product That's rarely the top priority for everyone on the team at the same time. Design folks want to '
by mgkimsal 5y ago
>everyone should be working together to make a better product
That's rarely the top priority for everyone on the team at the same time. Design folks want to 'design', and agreeing that 'feature X' doesn't need to be in the screens - even if it's "the better product", doesn't align with their career need to have showcase material for the next job interview.
Similar with tech/dev folks - an update feature might just need simple poll mechanism, but that doesn't give them experience with building a full pub/sub scalable architecture platform, or testing out the newest messaging libraries.
The more people on that team, the more conflicting priorities there will be.
- madeofpalk 5y ago> In well functioning product teams This doesn't sound like a great team, and doesn't really align with my (sure, admittedly limited) experience. I've only really worked once with someone who had strongly personally motivations that worked against the teams goal, and it was recognised that they were a wanker.
- mgkimsal 5y agothe notion of "a better product" is... way too amorphous. without a lot of definition and constraints, people can make solid arguments for 'the good of the project' which also align with their personal goals (new tech, more design, etc) and it's often very hard to argue against those, because they sound good aren't necessarily 'wrong'.