This is so true. Recently, I’ve been working on a project involving almost every department, including Product, Engineering, Compliance, Finance, etc.. We kicked things off late last year with a many meetings. Product was primarily coordinating between the teams, but engineers also met directly with non engineering departments to explain technical details and accelerate the timeline.

However, while the engineering team successfully fast tracked development, UAT, and production testing largely thanks to AI other departments only began digging deeper into the project toward the end of April. To be fair, they do use AI in their workflows to some extent, but they haven't adapted their processes to keep pace with engineering's increased productivity.

In my opinion, this lag is mostly because many employees in those departments are older and hesitant to change their routines. While I understand that resistance to change is a natural human trait, what comes to my mind is this beautiful German adage, "Wer nicht mit der Zeit geht, geht mit der Zeit" which loosely translates to, "Who doesn't change with time is left behind by time"