Breaking down silos isn’t always easy. But bringing diverse perspectives together is essential if we want to build great products.
Great software products fulfill a broad range of use cases, including ones that might not be immediately obvious to the engineers building them. That’s why it’s important to consider multiple perspectives from other teams when designing and implementing solutions.
For a product to work as expected, you need to leverage the knowledge that is often owned by very few people, from folks who understand the design of a system, to those working on communication protocols, to those with information around the specific expectations of stakeholders.