Second, collaboration is not about artifacts. Many product managers think their job is to produce some form of document capturing “requirements,” or, at the least, they are there to write user stories. It is true that sometimes we need to create artifacts (especially when team members are remote), but that is certainly not how we collaborate. In fact, these artifacts more often get in the way of actual collaboration. Why is that? Because once the product manager has declared something is a “requirement,” it pretty much ends the conversation and moves the discussion into implementation. At this
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