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

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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)?
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