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


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Mar 29 2020 63 mins   4
Daniel Rüdiger Senior Product Manager at Delivery Hero, Alaa Sarhan Senior Product Developer 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 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