At every step, this process is frustrating: you mourn the loss of these details, and you come to realize that your prior engineering expertise is becoming less and less relevant to your job. Instead, your effectiveness depends more than ever on your general technical intuition and ability to galvanize engineers to move in good directions.
It's not even just galvanizing engineers, it's getting their managers on board; their product and UX teams, too. And against the processes they have in place (or just averseness to new processes from 2+ degrees away)…
