Episode 15: What is Product-minded Engineering? What are product-minded developers?

03/30/20 • 63 min

Daniel RÃ1⁄4diger 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 âWhatâ by Product and âHowâ 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 âwhatâ is being built
- Cons
  - Highly specialized people âwasteâ 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?
- Whatâs the role of a product manager in a team of product-driven developers?
- If product-driven development focuses on âproduct outputâ: Whatâs your opinion on trying out new technologies (for the sake of trying out new technologies)?
Alaa's blog posts:

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Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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 âWhatâ by Product and âHowâ 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 âwhatâ is being built
- Cons
  - Highly specialized people âwasteâ 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?
- Whatâs the role of a product manager in a team of product-driven developers?
- If product-driven development focuses on âproduct outputâ: Whatâs your opinion on trying out new technologies (for the sake of trying out new technologies)?
Alaa's blog posts:

Also Available on:

Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFM

Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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Episode 14: Remote Work: past, COVID19, and future

Noa Tamir is our awesome new host, and Raz Shuty met remotely to talk about remote work, but also about this specific occasion of remote work with Covid-19...
Trying to understand what is remote work first of all, what are our feelings and experiences and talk about different models (and what it means how it differs from the current reality we are experiencing now)

We mentioned in this episode

Intro:

What's remote working even?
What are the benefits?
What are the downsides?

Our experiences:

flexible, if-needed, prohibited

Different models of working remotely:

A remote employee (minimal amount) in an on-premise place
Partial remote/partial on-prem
Flexible
Fully Remote
Unplanned remote with further complications (kids at home, caring for others, stress, not being prepared)

We mentioned in this episode

Raz mentioned:
Noa mentioned:
- Basecampâs Update to employees
Tools:

Next Episode

Episode 16: What is the role of Data Scientist?

Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and Noa Tamir are talking about what is the role of a data scientist

What do people usually get wrong about this role?
How can data scientists help, and who?
What skills or mindset are important for this role?
How do you get to it?
What does it mean to be a junior in this role vs senior/experienced? What are the main big differences you learn along the way?

We mentioned in this episode

Also Available on:

Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFM

Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License