It’s not my job to write requirements
3 min readSep 25, 2019
When I first started out in product management, I thought it was my job to write requirements. Like Moses, I envisioned the PM descending from Mount Sinai with her requirements; a technical version of the Ten Commandments (only thicker).
I was quick to learn that there is a fundamental problem with requirements: they imply a one-way street. The PM produces the requirements and the engineer…