Why dev, QA, and product read the same requirement differently
A pattern shows up on almost every team I’ve worked with, regardless of how disciplined the process otherwise is: Dev, QA, and Product each walk away from the same requirement holding a slightly different picture of what’s being built. It rarely surfaces at the moment the requirement is written. It surfaces later, and by then it’s expensive — a bug report that turns out to be a misunderstanding, a scope argument in the middle of a sprint, a story that stalls because QA and Dev quietly disagreed about what “done” meant and neither noticed until the story was in review. ...