A TinyCTO.tv technical parable about four departments leaving the same alignment meeting with five product definitions, six success metrics, and one calendar invite marked 'resolved.'
The PM: Good news. All four departments are aligned. Tiny CTO: On what? The PM: The product. Agent A: I found five definitions of the product. Scope Creep: Marketing wants a platform. Agent A: Sales wants a configurable promise. The PM: Finance wants a margin. Tiny CTO: And engineering? Agent A: Engineering wants a problem statement. Scope Creep: Customer Success already sold the migration. The PM: But everyone approved the same roadmap. Tiny CTO: They approved the same rectangle. Agent A: Each team attached a different success metric. Scope Creep: I added one shared metric. The PM: Which one? Tiny CTO: Meeting attendance.
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Teams often confuse nodding heads in a meeting with true semantic alignment and shared decision ownership.