https://obuchmann.dev/en/tags/collaboration/Recent content in Collaboration on obuchmann.devHugoen-usMon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://obuchmann.dev/en/posts/dangerous-to-go-alone/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://obuchmann.dev/en/posts/dangerous-to-go-alone/<h2 id="heading-out-alone">Heading out alone</h2> <p>In the very first cave of the very first Zelda, an old man is waiting. A sword lies in front of him, and he says one of the best-known lines in video game history: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s dangerous to go alone! Take this.&rdquo; Forty years later, we&rsquo;re heading out alone again in product development - just with much better gear.</p> <p>Jenny Wanger sat on a panel in Denver in mid-September and published an edited version of the conversation in early October (<a href="https://jennywanger.com/articles/building-alone-faster/">Building alone, faster</a>). The moderator, Lauri Hofherr, had spent a year meeting engineers writing PRDs, PMs coding prototypes, and designers doing both. To open the evening, she read out one of Wanger&rsquo;s LinkedIn posts with the line: &ldquo;AI is still single-player.&rdquo; Every role gets further, faster, on its own - and says the same thing about the other two: I&rsquo;ll pull them in later.</p>