Client stakeholders and implementation teams needed to have the same understanding of where trade-offs are present - their own Tech North Star formalized and agreed upon.
While our teams continued to deliver the backlog features with redesigns included, I led the hard conversations. Each stakeholder wanted contradicting features, blamed implicit decisions for blocks in delivery.
They prepared for the 4th rewrite from scratch when we managed to show the current architecture supports their next decade of roadmap if the missing pillar is implemented, development enablement:
- reusable components along domain frontends instead of copy-pasting,
- common security model vertical along domain backends,
- statistics domain instead of cross-syncing all entities to all domains.