Techpoint Charlie

Daniel Rüdiger Senior Product Manager at Delivery Hero, Alaa Sarhan Fullstack Engineer at Doodle (yes yes! the doodle you send your friends when you are trying to arrange a movie night at your place) and Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero are having an episode without Yael and Noa, and trying to figure out, what is product-driven development? What is this new trend called Product-Developers?

We mentioned in this episode

• What is product-driven development?
  • The development team is involved in finding the best solutions to solve business problems instead of just implementing them
  • Detached from “What” by Product and “How” by Tech
  • Value outcome over output
  • Opposite: Feature Factory(?)
• What are Product Developers?
  • If you Google Product Developer you get mostly non-software development related results
• Why product-driven development?
  • Pros
    • Have many (smart) people solve a problem instead of just one/few
    • Most people more motivated by being involved in “what” is being built
  • Cons
    • Highly specialized people “waste” time on topics they are not expert in
    • Overhead of storytelling, getting everybody involved (?)
• Discussable questions
  • How to handle a high-output software engineer in a product-driven development team?
  • Is product-driven development the evolution of cross-functional teams?
  • What’s the role of a product manager in a team of product-driven developers?
  • If product-driven development focuses on “product output”: What’s your opinion on trying out new technologies (for the sake of trying out new technologies)?
• Alaa's blog posts:
  • I am a Product Developer
  • Product Developers - Draft Definition
  • Product Developer TechStack
  • Product Developers - definition and roles

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Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and our awesome guest Noa Tamir are trying to make sense of the data of data science, what are the different roles? What is the difference between User Research, Market Research, Data Science Researchers, Business Analysts, Business Intelligence, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers?

We mentioned in this episode

• User Research, Market Research, Data Science Researchers, Business Analysts, Business Intelligence, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers
• Speed, Rigor, Performance
• https://towardsdatascience.com/data-sciences-most-misunderstood-hero-2705da366f40
• Did we “get it right”? What kinds of roles are there in data science
  • “Scientist”
  • “Engineer”
  • https://vas3k.com/blog/machine_learning/

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Super interesting talk with Charles about organisational culture and why should organisations care

Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab, Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE host a guest for the first time! today we meet Charles Ahmadzadeh Co-founder & Engineering 🤖 @bunch.ai to talk about organisational culture, the science of it and how to understand why it's worth paying attention to it.

We mentioned in this episode

bunch.ai's Github repo on culture:

• https://github.com/12grapes/culturewisdom

Quick intro to the Charles O'reilly's model (5min video):

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDMFbz4DEs

Some more content on culture:

• The topic on HBR: (Harvard Business Review): https://hbr.org/topic/organizational-culture
• Our free library of culture-hacks to influence your culture: https://app.bunch.ai/culture-hacks
• https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/charles-oreilly-finding-corporate-culture-drives-growth
• White paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Lists/Events/Attachments/627/Parsing%20organizational%20culture%20-%20Chatman%202-12-14.pdf

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Noa Tamir (Data Science Manager) and Raz Shuty (Engineering Manager) share with Alaa Sarhan (IC Fullstack-er) what management is about in general and why an IC (Individual Contributor) is nowadays more than ever empowered to not become a manager for the wrong reasons.
Sneak-peak reasons from the episode:

• Manager role is totally different from a lead IC role
• ICs are paid more than managers
• Missing short reward cycles, a.k.a "It's not about you anymore"
• and more in our lovely conversation ;)

Recommended reads on the topic:

• Charity Majors' 17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager
• Tanya Reilly's Not all engineering leaders are engineering managers

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A quick episode where Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) are randomly asking themselves a question and trying to see how they feel about it, in 20 minutes:
Have you used any persona framework at work. If so what did you like about it? What was it good for? What’s the downside of using them?
Nothing scientific here, more like a quick conversation about it :)
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