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Several years ago, at one of the previous places where I worked, we had major issues with product designer turnover and engineer engagement. Even though the company paid generously and had a good reputation, our software engineers would sit in sprint planning meetings, saying little and bolting out the door as soon as the meeting ended. New designers lost interest within a matter of months, and were usually gone before the year was up. One of the main causes for this team-wide dissatisfaction was our <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/product-development" target="_blank">product development</a> process, which at the time looked like this: