How do you currently maintain ‘truth’ about your product across product + engineering?
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In most teams, product context gets fragmented really fast - PRDs, Jira, Slack, meetings, docs… and they all drift over time.
We’re curious how teams here actually keep a reliable “source of truth” about what the product is doing in reality.
Is it documentation? Internal tools? Tribal knowledge? Or just constant syncing?
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Athena
@maya_elor
From my side, I don’t think there’s a real single “source of truth” in most teams, it’s more of a constantly reconstructed picture.
In practice, truth lives in different places: the system itself, Jira/PRDs (when they’re updated), and a lot of implicit context in engineering discussions. The gap usually shows up when those drift from each other.
What I’ve been trying to improve is reducing how much of that truth is “in people’s heads” and making more of it accessible directly from the system + decisions history, not just docs that go stale fast.
Curious how others here are solving this today, especially in larger orgs where syncing becomes the bottleneck.