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Happens all the time. Teams of people at Google work on the same features, only to find out near launch that they lost to another team who had been working on
by discordance 3y ago
Happens all the time.
Teams of people at Google work on the same features, only to find out near launch that they lost to another team who had been working on the same thing without their knowledge.
- PurelyApplied 3y ago[flagged]
- zebnyc 3y agoHow does that work? Do they have the same the same PM, requirements? Is it just different tech / achitectures adopted by different teams. Fascinating
- hanniabu 3y agoGive a goal (ex. make it more intuitive/easier for the user to do X), have 2 teams independently work on it, A/B test them, winner gets merged.
- discordance 3y agoIt is fascinating, very wasteful and also often devastating for the teams involved who worked very hard who then have their work thrown away. PMs/TPMs/POs may not know as they're on different teams. Often it's just a VP game and decided on preference or a power play and not on work quality/outcome.