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It's unlikely he was expected or even invited to these meetings. Business stakeholders are often outright hostile to anyone else being part of the requirements
by Gareth321 5y ago
It's unlikely he was expected or even invited to these meetings. Business stakeholders are often outright hostile to anyone else being part of the requirements gathering process. However, to your point, it sounds like he should have interjected anyway. I have had to force my way into broken feedback loops to shut them down many times. This is one important skill in the PM/PO role: facilitating meaningful requirements gathering and collation - especially when they don't want to play nice.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoThen they are going to fail. At the bare minimum you need to have at least one person working both on the technical side and directly with the users, otherwise the risk of making something they didn't want nor needed grows exponentially.
- anm89 5y agoI mean, they are 6 months into designing a single form. The failure is already here. They are actively failing.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago> Business stakeholders are often outright hostile to anyone else being part of the requirements gathering process. I’ve seen that a few times in my consulting days. I’d consider it a giant red flag now. One of them even had it written into their contract, something like “developers should spend as little time as possible with the business“.