Perhaps I am misunderstanding you, but wouldn’t those two non-technical roles have pretty significant reason to have ownership/input into a product? I could se

Perhaps I am misunderstanding you, but wouldn’t those two non-technical roles have pretty significant reason to have ownership/input into a product? I could see extreme positions on every end I guess. The Marketer has no idea what is technically realistic and makes promises to customers that are not technically feasible. The Accountant paralyzes decision making and reduces expenses via a variety of counterproductive means to protect the bottom line. The Engineer just wants to build cool things and does not really care if it makes money or customers actually want it/might find it cool. So long as curiosity is piqued and we can give it away for free to other engineers. I think they all have a role to play in the process, given that at the end of the day, you can’t have a product without money, customers won’t buy a product if it is not appealing/meets their requirements/something usable, and you can’t have money or a marketable product without people building it under mostly realistic expectations.