Let engineering alter designs early if scope exceeds the target delivery date
Nikita Gupta · Product vs. Engineering: The surprising way to create alignment in 2023 · Jul 11, 2023 · at 17:32
Nikita Gupta, Co-Founder and CTO of Simba, explains how to manage scope and timeline misalignment between product and engineering teams at SaasOpen.
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“The best part is, is like really early on when you're doing the designs and you're about to hand it off to engineering, get like a good sense of what that deadline would be. And then let the engineering team work with you to alter the designs if it's not fitting within the right deadline.”
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