Comment by crazygringo
1 year ago
I don't know about that -- I've always understood that to be the role of the product manager, to have all the domain knowledge.
It's the PM's job to work with engineering to ensure that the requirements are correct, and that the built product meets those requirements. And in an agile setting, those conversations and verifications are happening every single sprint, so something can't go for too long without being caught.
If you don't have a PM, then sure I guess your engineering team had better have deep domain knowledge. But otherwise, no -- it's not engineering's responsibility. It's products's responsibility.
There should be a system analyst. Every ERP or core banking big name works this way. Requirements have to be processed and then passed for implementation. In an agile setup rinse and repeat. As a side effect the whole team gains the domain knowledge. Or part of it.
> There should be a system analyst.
Exactly, this what we try to advance our tech people to, someone with the combination of domain+systems knowledge.
It results in more independent+correct action which is much more powerful than having to specify significant details to less knowledgeable people.