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Introducing the Decision Diff

Mar 3 · 6 min read · I'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...

Your PRD Changed 6 Times This Sprint. Your Engineers Found Out About 2.

Mar 2 · 6 min read · 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...

The Slack Thread That Cost Us 3 Weeks

Feb 23 · 6 min read · It 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...

The $2.4M Problem Hiding in Your Slack Threads

Feb 21 · 8 min read · Last 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 ear