How to Make Sure your Dev Team Understands What You Want to Build
Previously, I’ve talked a lot about the risks of managing development teams as a non-tech founder.
Especially when you’re a first-time founder.
Miscommunication, misaligned expectations, not knowing how to vet the right talent to make crucial decisions like programming language and architecture, etc, etc.
Let me give you an example:
A few days ago, a Founder from Miami reached out to us asking for help rescuing his project from another team.
When we analysed the documentation, our tech team was 100% clear on what caused the problem.
And it was not the other team.
There was a clear mismatch between what the founder had in his mind, and what the dev team received as a requirement list.
There was no one in the middle, working at the intersection between business reasoning, user experience and technology.
Our CTO then let us know this was a much more common problem than we thought.
So my team did the next logical thing: they asked for his help with an article on how to write a proper Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document.
Cláudio has seen dozens of SRS documents in his decade-long career, building tech products and leading development teams.
His experience means he can now easily spot one that will align with your development team and one that will get left unread.
He’s taken that experience and boiled it down into one, actionable resource that will determine:
- Whether or not you should write an SRS document
- And if you should, it provides you with everything you need to write one that follows the best practices and clearly communicates your key technical requirements to your team.
See you in a few days
Building is easy. Deciding what not to build is harder.