What often happens, however, is that when a customer asks for a new bathroom. Engineering will point out that they won’t need it in a year because the customers children at moving out age. Not considering that both the customer and product is well aware of this and their motivation is completely different.
Even if your engineering department is quick to accept that, it’ll be a waste of everyone’s time that engineering chose not to trust their own organisation to be good at their jobs. Leading to a rift between software engineering (and IT in general) and the rest of the organisation. This eventually leads to IT not understanding why departments start buying their software systems from 3rd parties, or why nobody in management will listen to them.
It’s the job of engineering to point out that adding that bathroom will require a massive rebuild to preserve the integrity of the structure of the house. It’s not their job to tell product that product actually doesn’t want what they are asking for.
