>that no one bothered to think of any of this to begin with. That's not a functional way to approach organizational problems like teams building the wrong thing

>that no one bothered to think of any of this to begin with. That's not a functional way to approach organizational problems like teams building the wrong thing The odds you're the first one to have thought of something are [practically] zero The odds you're the first to implement something are only slightly higher When you find out someone else has already built 89% of what you're looking for (and 213% of what you hadn't thought of yet, because they already ran into the corner cases and what-ifs you couldn't possibly have thought of until you hit them), you can save yourself (and the organization) loads of effort by extending what's there instead of building from scratch Maybe you're the first to think of it and first to build it But you're probably not - and getting that early feedback from someone who sees what you're working, and says, "why are you building what Sally & Tom built last spring?" is absolutely invaluable