In any handoff of work, there are two ways for decisions to be transmitted: specification and delegation.
When specifying, the party requesting the work makes a decision and communicates that decision. When delegating, the requesting party conveys intent and authorizes the work-provider to make the necessary decisions on their behalf.
If you aren't getting the results you want out of communicating requests for work - whether it's enablers coming from architects or requirements coming from Product - you have two ways to make it better.
One option is to improve how you delegate. Make an attempt to better-convey intent, give a broad charter to realize that intent, and educate the people doing the work on how to evaluate whether or not they are moving closer to or further from the goal.
Another option is to improve how you specify. Make an attempt to eliminate the potential for misunderstandings in lines of communication, channels that cause information to change hands many times. Install feedback loops to ensure that specifications are met.
While you don't have to choose between getting good at one and getting good at another, do you have to choose one and only one path for any given decision at any given point of time.
That is, you can hand off the specification of a decision you've made or you can delegate a decision to someone else but you cannot delegate a decision to be made exactly as you would have made it.
If you aren't getting the results you want out of communicating requests for work - whether it's enablers coming from architects or requirements coming from Product - you have two ways to make it better.
One option is to improve how you delegate. Make an attempt to better-convey intent, give a broad charter to realize that intent, and educate the people doing the work on how to evaluate whether or not they are moving closer to or further from the goal.
Another option is to improve how you specify. Make an attempt to eliminate the potential for misunderstandings in lines of communication, channels that cause information to change hands many times. Install feedback loops to ensure that specifications are met.
While you don't have to choose between getting good at one and getting good at another, do you have to choose one and only one path for any given decision at any given point of time.
That is, you can hand off the specification of a decision you've made or you can delegate a decision to someone else but you cannot delegate a decision to be made exactly as you would have made it.
