Peers or Laborers? Notes from a Talk on Tech, Product, and What Nobody Said
A few nights ago I found myself in another one of those rooms. Same shape as the last one I wrote about: a circle of experienced people, a general topic and coffee and networking breaks. This time the subject was the relationship between tech and product teams; specifically, the friction in how they communicate, and why the two so often end up talking past each other. It’s a good topic. It’s also a trap. Everyone in a room like that has a war story, and war stories are easy to tell and very hard to learn from. So we told them. And somewhere between the third and fourth anecdote, I started noticing the things we weren’t saying - which, as usual, turned out to be the interesting part. ...