The document discusses different roles on a product team and common attitudes they may have. It touches on a product manager not caring about technical details, a system analyst seeing their job as done after specifications, a UX designer wanting analytics access and not adjusting fonts without reason, an engineer not caring about business aspects and seeing architecture as more than new tools, a QA engineer viewing all bugs as equally important, and common patterns of team members trying to find weaknesses and promote their opinions without understanding other roles. The conclusion is there is no single solution and maturity comes with experience working as a team.

1. Product teams.
The Good, the Bad, the Unaligned.
just a tale by Arseny Kravchenko

2. Team roles
What to do?
How to do?
Why do? When to do?
Finally do it!
PM
UX/UI
BA/SASE
QA

3. Team roles
What to do?
How to do?
Why do? When to do?
Finally do it!
PM
UX/UI
BA/SASE
QA

4. Product Manager
I don’t care about your
technical shit
Feel free to call me
anytime
We have no
competitors!
Talking to users is out
of my business
Let me check…
This feature is not worth
overtiming

5. System Analyst
I see no difference
between browser and
server caches
It looks like we missed
one more corner case
I just turn your words
into specification.
My job is done after the
specification finished
My specification is
adapted for the team
“Software Requirements”
by Wiegers is not the
Bible.

6. UX/UI
I made the layout, and I
don’t care anymore.
I need an access to
Google Analytics
That’s ugly and doesn’t
match modern trends.
NO WAY!
Front-end guy is just an
asshole!
I don’t play with fonts
just because you want it
A/B tests are smarter
than me

7. Software Engineer
I don’t care about your
business shit.
My word is solid
It was not mentioned in
the specification
I did something with
the app, and you don’t
need to know
Architecture is not
about getting new toys
(only)
I’m not a coding
monkey

8. QA Engineer
All bugs are equally
important
This new feature is
blocking the old one
My checklist is just a
rewritten specification
Hmm, I can’t
reproduce. Let it go.
Sure, I know how it
works and why we
implemented it
We can’t deploy this
crap to production
environment

9. Common patterns
I don’t care about…
I try to find weak points
I’m not the smartest
But I have my balls to
promote my opinion
I don’t have to
understand neighbor’s
tasks
You can never
understand what I do

10. Instead of conclusions
There is no silver bullet.
Product team is just mature.