In a team practicing Domain Driven Design, should the whole team participate in Stakeholder meetings?
- by thirdy
In my experience, a Software Development Team that comprises:
1 Project Manager
1 Tech Lead
1 - 2 Senior Dev
2 - 3 Junior Dev (Fresh grad)
Only the Tech Lead & PM (and/or Senor Dev/s) will participate in a meeting with Clients, Domain Experts, Client's technical resource.
I can think of the ff potential pitfalls:
Important info gets lost
Human error (TL/PM might forgot to disseminate info due to pressure or plain human error)
Non-verbal info (maybe a presentation using a diagram presented by Domain Expert)
Maintaining Ubiquitous language is harder to build since not all team members get to hear the non-dev persons
Potential of creative minds are not fully realized (Personally, I am more motivated to think/explore when I am involved with these important meetings)
Advantages of this approach:
Only one point of contact
Less time spent on meetings?
Honestly, I am biased & against this approach. I would like to hear your opinions. Is this how you do it in your team?
Thanks in advance!
