
… process, we’d find that these were indeed problems, and I could have saved the team a lot of time. It was a good lesson for me to not worry about asking dumb questions. Sometimes teams are so close to what they are working on that having somebody that is not as close to it asking innocent questions — if there are obvious answers, they get answered in 30 seconds and you move on. But sometimes those questions can allow you to catch something that a group of people who are thinking alike and working together for many hours out of the week might not have thought of.