Product Development Leaders: Stop Being the Translator Between Customer Needs and Engineering Reality

Transform fuzzy requirements into clear, aligned design decisions—before your team wastes weeks building the wrong thing.

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Product Managers and engineering leaders: You know the pain of the "fuzzy front end"—when your team works in silos, jumps to solutions too early, and discovers critical problems too late.

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The 'Ta-da Flop'

Your team designs for weeks, then unveils their solution—only to watch it get torn apart because it doesn't solve the real customer problem or meet stakeholder expectations.

The cost: Wasted engineering hours, demoralized teams, and delayed launches.

Functional Silos & Poor Communication

Marketing promises features Engineering can't deliver. Manufacturing says the design is unbuildable. Quality finds compliance gaps at the last minute.

The result: You're stuck playing referee instead of leading product strategy, while critical knowledge stays locked in individual heads until it erupts in crisis.

No Repeatable Process

Every project starts from scratch. Wild ideas chase unproductive meetings. Projects stall in false starts or burn budget on endless prototypes.

The problem: Quality depends on "hero" individuals. When they leave, their knowledge walks out the door—and you can't scale what you can't repeat.

Late Quality & Risk Analysis

Critical reliability issues, safety concerns, and regulatory gaps surface when design is "95% complete"—when fixing anything requires expensive rework and timeline extensions.

The pattern: Risk analysis happens too late, turning what should be early design inputs into late-stage firefighting.

You know the cycle: You gather requirements, brief the team, and weeks later engineering delivers something that completely misses the mark. Now you're stuck explaining why it needs to be redone...again.

There's a better way. Get proven frameworks that align your cross-functional team before design starts, not after prototypes fail.

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Hi. I'm Dianna Deeney,

I understand engineering and new product development. I've worked across the entire product lifecycle, from production floor to quality engineering.

I've spotted what consistently trips up product development teams, like yours.

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Product Managers: You don't have to keep playing translator. Get frameworks that align your team around clear design decisions—before anyone wastes time building the wrong thing.

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