Why your teams don’t align and how to fix it

Hosted by Mihaela Draghici

Wed, May 6, 2026

3:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

Free to join

Invite your network

Go deeper with a course

Product Sense for Engineers Workshop
Mihaela Draghici and Daniel Ghilea
View syllabus

What you'll learn

Understand the cost of language debt

See how misaligned language leads to delays, rework, and weak decisions across functions.

Spot language debt in your team

Learn to identify misaligned terms like “MVP” or “done” and where they create friction in your team.

Why more alignment meetings don’t work

Understand why meetings fail and how shared definitions, not discussions, create real alignment.

Use language as a decision tool

Learn how clear definitions improve prioritisation, trade-offs, and cross-functional decisions.

Apply a simple language mapping tool

Walk away with a practical method to map, define, and test shared language in your team.

Why this topic matters

In a world where AI accelerates execution misalignment gets amplified. Product teams don’t fail because of bad strategy. They fail because people use the same words… and mean different things. Alignment is a language problem. You don’t fix this with: more meetings, better tools, stricter processes. You fix it by making meaning explicit.

You'll learn from

Mihaela Draghici

Product Leader | Creator of the Language Mapping Blueprint

Mihaela has 15 years of international experience building and scaling products across education, martech, e-commerce, and automotive.

She has led cross-functional Product, Design, and Engineering teams in global organisations, managing budgets, portfolios, product strategy and product delivery at scale.

Across teams, functions, and leadership layers, she observed a consistent pattern: decisions break down when the same words mean different things to different roles.

This insight led her to develop the Language Mapping Blueprint, a practical approach to aligning how teams think, decide, and collaborate.

Having worked closely with engineers, executives, and commercial leaders, she helps teams connect technical decisions to revenue, risk, and growth, by fixing the language systems behind them.

Sign up to join this lesson

By continuing, you agree to Maven's Terms and Privacy Policy.