--- title: Informing Stakeholders Isn't the Same as Aligning Them description: A personal account of a launch-day misstep during an app navigation redesign, where a stakeholder discovered a new feature via an A/B test rollout instead of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/informing-stakeholders-isn-t-the-same-as-aligning-them-fq0xoyu9x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Informing Stakeholders Isn't the Same as Aligning Them | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of a launch-day misstep during an app navigation redesign, where a stakeholder discovered a new feature via an A/B test rollout instead of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/informing-stakeholders-isn-t-the-same-as-aligning-them-fq0xoyu9x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fq0XoyU9x.png og:image:alt: Informing Stakeholders Isn't the Same as Aligning Them og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Informing Stakeholders Isn't the Same as Aligning Them **[DevOps.com](https://daily.dev/sources/devops)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of a launch-day misstep during an app navigation redesign, where a stakeholder discovered a new feature via an A/B test rollout instead of through prior alignment. The author argues that informing stakeholders via Slack messages and optional meeting invites is not the same as gaining real alignment, since silence or a declined invite is often mistaken for agreement. The piece outlines three practices adopted afterward: treating stakeholder attendance at key sessions as mandatory, running dedicated pre-launch alignment working sessions, and using feature toggles to let stakeholders experience changes firsthand through friends-and-family canary testing before customers do. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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