Having product and engineering as separate organizations can lead to a divide in priorities, with product focus potentially hindering technical aspects. This can result in increased technical debt and a decrease in quality over time. Balancing the collaboration between product and engineering can be crucial to ensure a strong foundation for engineers to deliver quality work while meeting customer demands.
Brent Strange, Director of Engineering Excellence at GoDaddy, has a unique perspective on the role of an internal enablement team because he focuses more on the people and processes instead of tooling. Here he shares his perspective on org structure, as well as the role of agile coaches and his response to some of the negative views that exist towards Agile.