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️When Collaboration Goes Too Far: How Software Engineers Slip Into Product Owner Roles
- Collaboration is essential for team success, but collaboration only works when everyone stays in their lane.
- Engineering teams need to avoid blurring their roles and doing the product owner’s job.
- Over stepping by Technical Leaders can result in missing strategic planning opportunities.
- Engineers are natural problem-solvers, but their eagerness to help may sometimes cross the line.
- There is a delicate balance between constructive pushback and unnecessary control.
- Collaboration between the PO, TLs and designers ensure that each domain of business, technology and design are managed adequately and adequately supported .
- Engineers should guide the conversation while letting the PO own the final decision on what and why to build.
- Teams shouldn't move forward on a project when they have doubts about the project’s long-term sustainability. Instead, they should refocus their energies and priorities.
- True teamwork means leveraging diverse expertise to complement each other while respecting one another’s boundaries.
- The key to iterative product success is aligning the “Three Amigos” — TL, PO, and Designer — within their domains of business, technology, and design.
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