MMeetlessinmeetless.hashnode.dev·Mar 3 · 6 min readIntroducing the Decision DiffI've spent the last six posts describing the same problem from different angles. A PM changes scope in Slack and 3 people see it, 8 need to. A PRD gets edited 6 times and engineers find out about 2. A feature ships wrong and nobody can answer "who si...00
MMeetlessinmeetless.hashnode.dev·Mar 2 · 6 min readYour PRD Changed 6 Times This Sprint. Your Engineers Found Out About 2.I sat in a sprint retro last month where the PM pulled up the PRD for the feature we just shipped. She scrolled to the revision history. Six edits since sprint planning. Six. The tech lead looked at the screen like it owed him money. "I knew about th...01R
MMeetlessinmeetless.hashnode.dev·Feb 23 · 6 min readThe Slack Thread That Cost Us 3 WeeksIt was a Tuesday. Two weeks into a three-week sprint. Our PM dropped a message in #product-updates: "Hey team, talked to the client. We're switching the export from CSV to PDF. They need formatted reports for their board meetings. Updated the PRD." T...00
MMeetlessinmeetless.hashnode.dev·Feb 21 · 8 min readThe $2.4M Problem Hiding in Your Slack ThreadsLast year, I sat in a retro where an engineer said, "I built exactly what the ticket said." He was right. The ticket was wrong. A PM had changed the acceptance criteria in a Slack thread four days ear00
