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I came up as a software requirements analyst before the weird transition between business analyst to product owner to product manager to technical product manager. But living in requirements for 15+ years really gave me a leg up on these “let’s go back to requirements!” efforts.

It always amazes me how bad the software world is at keeping lessons learned as learned, especially when compared to say engineering. It's as if every 20 years or so we throw away the books and reinvent it all from first principles, hopefully this time with fewer mistakes overall but usually we end up finding both new ones and re-do some old ones.

It's because software engineering, which deals with bits, evolves dramatically faster than other engineering disciplines, which deal with the physical world.

It's almost like "move fast and break things" isn't such a good mantra.

It’s almost as if we need to write some unit tests. For our profession.

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