{"id":3545,"date":"2015-10-12T13:20:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T12:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prodpad.com\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:12:23","slug":"working-with-development-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prodpad.com\/blog\/working-with-development-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"How Smart Product People Bridge The Gap With Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Product people\u00a0are right in the center of the storm.<br><br>What happens when you\u00a0cross paths with the other storm, the engineering team? You may plan what your product is going to look like, but they&#8217;re the ones actually building it. Your work is inextricably wound up in each other&#8217;s, so how can you make your job (and theirs) easier and more effective?<br><br>Here are a few tips to help you\u00a0(and them) work in sync.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-always-include-the-business-case\">Always include the business case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A common complaint among engineers is that they get specs thrown into their inbox with zero context. Not fun, right? They&#8217;re part of the team too &#8211; and they deserve to know why they&#8217;re building a spec. Before you send over an idea to your engineering team, make sure that you&#8217;ve drawn\u00a0out enough background information\u00a0to help them understand what\u00a0they need to deliver. This could include specific customer feedback, key comments from other teams and of course, <strong>the business case<\/strong>.<br><br>The business case is\u00a0really just these two questions:<br><br><strong>1.What problem are you trying to solve?<\/strong><br><br><strong>2. What impact would it have if it were solved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prodpad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-10.23.54.png\" alt=\"Product people\" width=\"590\" height=\"162\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If your team or product people work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prodpad.com\/blog\/how-to-write-great-user-stories\/\"><strong>user stories<\/strong><\/a>, you can enter those within the idea too. You can push those independently from the idea or one by one &#8211; you choose! They will all still remain part of the same epic so your team can work through the tasks.<br><br>If you have <strong>supporting documentation and mockups<\/strong>, include those in the idea. We support mockup versioning as well, so both you and your engineering team can keep track of the documentation progress.<br><br>Don&#8217;t things look better already?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-keep-things-tidy\">Keep things tidy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve organized all the relevant parts of your spec for your engineers, clean up the rest.<br><br>Keep all\u00a0conversation, votes, and comments all in one place\u00a0so\u00a0it won&#8217;t interfere with\u00a0their work.\u00a0What you want to do is give them the time and space to work on their job without the extra clutter.<br><br>So if you can control their view, keep their tasks clean and allow them to focus on what they need to do. They don&#8217;t want (or need) to be concerned with the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-don-t-be-a-dictator\">Don&#8217;t be a dictator!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping the conversation separate from the engineering workflow does not mean you shouldn&#8217;t include them in the conversation. Let them see what&#8217;s going on &#8211; don&#8217;t just throw stuff over the fence and expect them to blindly work on things! By giving your whole team access to ProdPad, they can cooperate, understand, and contribute to new features as you&#8217;re spec&#8217;ing out for them.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prodpad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-10.19.36.png\" alt=\"Discussion in ProdPad\" width=\"581\" height=\"115\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Once your idea is ready to go, push&nbsp;it over to your&nbsp;development&nbsp;tool such as JIRA, Trello, or Github via (<a href=\"https:\/\/help.prodpad.com\/article\/490-integrations-api\">we integrate with all of them<\/a>)&nbsp;and have the team start working on it. Voila!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>ProdPad is a tool for you and your whole team. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.prodpad.com\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign up<\/a> for a free trial today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product people\u00a0are right in the center of the storm. What happens when you\u00a0cross paths with the other storm, the engineering team? 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