On Friday, June 19, 2015, Brian Gerstle bgerstle@wikimedia.org wrote:
...I think engineers who are "sold" on the teams' mission are capable of making good decisions about what to work on. Our current situation in the Readership vertical is a live experiment on this subject.
Indeed. I'm looking forward to the good work our engineers will produce under the current federated engineer-led product owner approach. For those who don't know, historically the mobile teams subsumed into Reading had 3 product managers. Presently, there's 1 product manager in the vertical recruiting for backfills is in flight), and many common product owner responsibilities are federated to an engineer within each discipline.