Seven principles for fostering great relationships with product teams

As a tech management consultant, I often enter a company and hear things like: ‘The engineers don’t meet deadlines.’ ’The product managers write poor user stories.’ Or, ’the product delivery velocity is too slow’.

It doesn’t take more than that for me to know that the product and engineering teams do not get along too well, which harms the company in so many ways.

Fortunately, I have worked with some successful companies where there is an excellent working relationship between product and engineering. By looking at what these companies have in common, I developed this list of best practices for fostering great relationships across the two functions

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