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How do you ensure that the engineering team understands all the scopes of the project?

Pavan Kumar
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco5mo
I use a structured approach I call the A.L.I.G.N. Framework – ensuring clarity, context, and commitment across all stakeholders before development begins.A.L.I.G.N. – Art...
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DJ Chung
Shopify Senior Staff Product Manager3y
This is a continual process! It is important to have regular syncs with the engineering team to discuss progress, open product questions, and review next steps. I don't t...
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Kara Gillis
Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte5mo
We use a two-stage review process that separates "are we solving the right problem?" from "are we solving the problem right?" This ensures engineering understands not jus...
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Manjeet Singh
Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management5mo
AI projects often have hidden complexity: data pipelines, model behavior, evaluation methods, and product UX layers. So i think PM should spend more time in thinking abou...
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Poorvi Shrivastav
Meta Senior Director of Product Management5mo
To prevent scope drift, Early, Continuous Alignment is critical. I always ensure project kick-offs begin with the Voice of the Customer a real-world example or customer s...
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Tamar Hadar
Senior Director of Product | Strategic Planning, Mentoring | Formerly The Knot Worldwide, Trello (Atlassian)5mo
I love this question. Ensuring everyone deeply understands the project’s scope sets the entire team up for success. Scope misalignment is one of the biggest drivers of wa...
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Suzie Prince
Atlassian Head of Product, DevOps10mo
Scope alignment is a shared responsibility. PMs, EMs, and designers should work together to make sure the team understands the why, the what, and the constraints, not jus...
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Sam Friedman
Eventbrite Senior Director of Product2y
Ensuring that the engineering team understands the project scope is a joint effort between product management and engineering. To do this effectively, there are a many st...
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Sirisha Machiraju
Level AI VP of Product2y
Engineering should be part of your planning journey and not be brought in only when scoping. Couple of ways to driving the understanding to your engineering team:Througho...
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Preethy Vaidyanathan
Matterport VP of Product5mo
Effective communication and robust tooling are essential for ensuring the engineering team has a complete understanding of the project scope.Leverage Generative AI (GenAI...
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C. Todd Lombardo
Co-author Product Roadmaps Relaunched | Formerly Openly, MachineMetrics, ConstantContact, Vempathy, Fresh Tilled Soil2y
Ask them to repeat it back to you in their own words. "Explain it to me like I'm 10 years old!"Ask them where they have the most confidence and the least confidence about...
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