Internal Stakeholders vs Internal Consumers
What's the difference between internal stakeholders and internal consumers?
Internal stakeholders are operations or business teams who demand specific product outcomes. They stay out of the technical handshakes between modules. Internal consumers are other tech teams whose code hits the module's interface. They are the primary technical customers, and the interface contract exists to serve them. Mixing the two exposes the module's internals through the same back door.
How should a CTO split a request that touches multiple modules?
When a stakeholder request affects multiple modules, the CTO splits it into one isolated project per module. Each team then evolves its component independently, with no cross-team dependencies. The metric of success is whether each project can be completed by one team without involving the others, which is also the test of whether the architecture is doing its job.
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