Techpoint Charlie

Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) Fullstack Engineer at Doodle is inviting Armin Bognar Product Advisor and Head of Product at Orderlion and Marc Sandifer Senior Product Manager at Contorion for a conversation to exchange and share their knowledge and experiences around measuring success in product companies; a topic that is or must be near and dear to every Product Manager, Product Designer and pretty much any Individual Contributor in a product team.

• What success do we want to measure?
• How do we shift from output-driven to impact-driven process and culture?
• How can we measure impact of our changes, small or big, operational or strategic?

In this episode, we mentioned:

• ICE Scoring Method as a useful tool for trying to quantify your ideas, which might be even more helpful to do when you can't rely on data to back those ideas with.
• Disney's four keys to Guest Experience as an example of how prioritized goals help teams and individuals act in an aligned and autonomous ways while carrying their day-to-day work.
• OKR framework as one way to align teams around prioritize goals as well as flip the natural inferior way of approaching development which is starting with the idea and later figure out what it is useful for, to starting with the goal and then figure out good ideas that might get us there.
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Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE finally came back from a long summer break and decided to talk about one on ones on episode 11 - talk about how to do them, why they are there and what the effects they have and generally what it means to have good ones and to have "bad" ones...
We mentioned in this episode

• https://www.careship.de/

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Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE are happy to host Erin Jeavons-Fellows Head of Design (Product) @Delivery Hero Germany and they are talking about where from which point should designers be involved in strategy talks and how to improve our connection to users

We mentioned in this episode

• The Design Process: Double Diamond

https://www.buzzsprout.com/258844/1223315-episode-10-what-it-means-for-everyone-to-have-design-and-ux-leading-the-strategy

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Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about retrospectives (and why Raz is SO high on them):

We talked about retrospectives, and why they are so good, why value they could bring if they are done right (and of course how to do them "the right way").

We talked about how to create action items and what some other tricks to make you retros productive and effective.

We mentioned in this episode

• How to retrospective
• Three popular ways to run a productive Retrospective

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Yael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are meeting again to talk about management, and specifically what makes a good manager, and how makes a bad one...

We mentioned in this episode

1. What is the role of a manager?
   1. What sort of manager are we talking about? Project / People / Function / Strategic / Change Management?
2. Can an inexperienced manager be a good manager?
3. Should it be a full-on move? Can it be a combo IC+M role? Does it scale?
4. How to recognize a good manager
   1. What they do
   2. How you feel
5. How to recognize a bad manager
   1. What they do
   2. How you feel
6. Some stories from our past (good or bad that shaped us as people)

Reading recommendations:

1. https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/
2. https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/
3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300025.The_Ideal_Executive

References:

1. https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897
2. https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-manager-path-camille-fournier
3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45007872-97-things-every-engineering-manager-should-know
4. https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/4-signs-that-a-boss-has-high-emotional-intelligence.html
5. https://increment.com/teams/how-to-build-a-startup-engineering-team/
6. https://hbr.org/2018/05/managers-cant-be-great-coaches-all-by-themselves

https://www.trainingjournal.com/articles/feature/four-types-dysfunctional-manager
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