My Product Team is struggling to keep up: writing detailed, high-quality specs used to be fine when engineering was the constraint, but now I find them to think on rushing specs (and paying for it in rework) or becoming the drag on delivery.
Curious how other organizations are handling this:
- Have you changed how specs are written or structured?
- Are PMs using AI to write specs faster, and does that actually help or just move the problem?
- Have you restructured the PM-to-engineer ratio?
- Or have you accepted that "good enough" specs are fine when iteration is cheap?
eterm•1h ago
And that hints at one solution, if you demand better quality then you'll slow down engineering back to a level you can control.