The Dream Team Nightmare

Clear Goals

You know that the highest value task you can be doing right now is to get Owen’s feedback on your work. Changing the way the Dream Team works is likely to have a positive impact on the way product ownership is implemented at Love Inc., and that in turn may help Owen and his team in the long term.

Owen is impressed by your improvement suggestions. He says, “If we only managed to clarify the project goals, we’d reduce the amount of noise and wasteful debates on why IT keeps delivering software that no one wants.”

Owen adds that it’s useful to see such a concrete list of suggestions from an expert like yourself. He says, “It’s funny, but I wonder if the management team would pay as much attention if we made the same suggestions ...