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I make a presentation to explain to the boss why we had to tweak around the requirements in order to keep backwards compatibility and stuff. I take 15 minutes explaining how our system currently works and how these requirements would change it, etc etc.

"So... is this workflow okay for our customers?"

They stared into the presentation slide for a good minute.

"I think we should align this row over here with that square over there."

"Oh don't worry this is a demo. But do you think our customers will still be okay with these changes?"

"Yeah, but these two elements are unalligned and they look pretty bad."

I'm starting to think that fancy speech can deter people from questioning or complaining to you. I'm pretty sure they don't know their own product as well as I know it.

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  • 5
    My product owner also knows a lot less about the product than I do, I guess it's a matter of communication
  • 3
    That seems to be the case everywhere. The number of times I've had to explain to my boss that Jenkins and Kubernetes are two different things... We run Jenkins on a k8s cluster and apparently in his mind that means the two words are synonymous.
  • 1
    My old place let all the devs go and said “we can get cheaper devs because the analysts and the product owners are the ones who know how the systems work. So they can tell the new devs” 😂😂😂😂
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