[torben-friis]

This reads awfully, as both people seem to be wrong. The coder's just avoiding work and dismissing product, but the manager's just bullying the guy into getting a respectful "yes, sir" like an authoritarian parent.

The obvious, glaring issue of broken dynamics between product and devs is never taken care of nor addressed, and it seems inevitable the manager's actions create resentment towards product by the dev, and a "us vs then" culture.

Good leaders always see dynamics and patterns, rather than "John is good and Betty is bad".

[silisili]

I really don't understand why the two(or even three) of them didn't hop on a 5 minute call to understand what was being asked, instead of whatever hellish version of Chinese whispers this team dynamic is.