Systematic Suggestions
1. Improve Requirements Process
- Establish multi-stage requirements review mechanism (pre-communication → formal review → post-review confirmation)
- Strictly prohibit private verbal requirement changes
- Ensuring “clear requirements” is the first step to avoid conflicts
2. Enhance Communication Skills
- Provide technical concept training for product managers
- Provide business perspective training for developers
- Promote non-violent communication model
3. Align Goals
- Introduce OKR system
- Set team-shared Objectives and Key Results
- Include cross-department collaboration in performance evaluation
4. Agile Practices
- Sprint planning meetings, daily standups
- Sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Continuously expose and optimize collaboration problems
5. Manage Expectations
- Set aside 10-15% “buffer time” for changes
- Limit the number of temporary requirements in each iteration
- Avoid temporary changes causing relationship tension
6. Senior Management Involvement
- Timely escalate to management for coordination when conflicts intensify
- Prevent conflicts from endlessly dragging on at lower levels
7. Team Culture
- Team building activities
- Praise collaboration role models
- Regular health checks
Core Perspective
“Product and development are comrades on the same boat,” these strategies can effectively transform conflicts into collaboration motivation.