The 1st Meeting

Product Manager: People, this could be a game changer! Think of the paid content we could open up to non-english speakers in those markets. How fast can we get it into trunk?

Engineer: First we have to figure out what *it* is.

Product Manager: I want users to be able to click a button in the main dropdown menu and translate all their text.

Engineering Manager: Shouldn’t we verify with the user which language they want? Many in the EU speak multiple languages. Also do we want translation per page?

Product Manager:  Worry about translation per page later. Yeah, verify with user is fine as long as we only do it once.

Engineering Manager: It doesn’t quite work like that. If you want translation per page later, we’ll need to architect this so it can support that in the future.

Product Manager: …Fine

Engineer: What about pages that fail translation? What would we display in that case?

Product Manager: Throw an error bar at the top and show the original page. That’ll cover languages the service can’t handle too. Use the standard error template from UX.

Engineering Manager: What device actually does the translation? The phone?

Product Manager: No, make the server do it, bandwidth on phones is precious and spotty. When they start up the phone next, it should download the content already translated to our app.

Engineer: Ok, well if there’s a server involved, we need to talk to the Ops folks.

Engineering Manager: and the DBAs. We’ll also need to find who is the expert on user data handling. We could be handling a lot of that before this is out.

Project Manager: Next UI release is in 6 weeks. I’ll see about scheduling some time with Ops and the database team.

Product Manager: Can you guys pull it off?

Engineer: Depends on the server folks’ schedule.

Who brought up user data safety & privacy concerns in this conversation?

The Engineering Manager.

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