There’s a more general version of this post that might have said “does your conversation have a goal, or not?”. I thought about using that lens, but something about the product-ness makes things more concrete to me.
[edit: I missed that you said ‘project’, as opposed to ‘product.’ Project might work, but I think ‘product’ still carries a bit more of the connotations that I care about. There’s a particular way that I work together with someone on a team if we’re building something that we’re planning to sell. Or rather, there are particular failure modes I don’t fall into there. And part of what I’m (weakly) claiming is that those intuitions are useful to port over]
There’s a more general version of this post that might have said “does your conversation have a goal, or not?”. I thought about using that lens, but something about the product-ness makes things more concrete to me.
[edit: I missed that you said ‘project’, as opposed to ‘product.’ Project might work, but I think ‘product’ still carries a bit more of the connotations that I care about. There’s a particular way that I work together with someone on a team if we’re building something that we’re planning to sell. Or rather, there are particular failure modes I don’t fall into there. And part of what I’m (weakly) claiming is that those intuitions are useful to port over]