Van Eyprin: Developers Need Full Transparency on Business and Customer Demographics
Peter van Eyprin · Why Dogfooding Your Own Product Exposes What All Your Data Misses · Dec 15, 2020 · at 22:45
Consultant Peter van Eyprin discusses why product and engineering teams require strategic and demographic context to avoid building unusable or unnecessary software features.
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“A developer should know what you're doing well as a business and not, and your customer base, because without knowledge, without transparency, and without that shared communication The more and more often you guys are going to be shooting blind at each other and no one is going to be stepping into the room doing that litmus test going, yeah, I don't know if we really need this. I don't know if this is really the right direction.”
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