008: How to Build Strong Partnerships with Design and Engineering

Enterprise Product Leadership

Deanna Shaw, Director of Design for the Internet of Things at IBM Watson IoT, and Roxy Stimpson, Vice President and CTO at IoT World labs share their experience developing IoT solutions. In this episode, we discuss how to best manage the cooperative efforts of design, engineering, and product management teams.

Building IoT products can be very complex, in part because we have a lot more moving parts, ranging from hardware, and device software, all the way to cloud applications. Having more pieces in the puzzle means more teams need to get involved throughout the development lifecycle. Having strong partnerships with all departments involved can be the difference between success and failure in this era of the connected device. Roxy and Deanna are IoT Executives leading Engineering and Design departments for their companies and our discussion revolves around what other departments expect from the Product Management team and how we can partner together with them to build the best possible IoT product for our customers.

Topics we discuss in this episode:

• Deanna shares her background and about IBM Watson.
• Roxy shares her background and about IoT World Labs.
• What other departments expect from the PM team.
• How to partner to build the best possible IoT products for customers.
• What makes a good partnership between design, engineering, and PM teams.
• Deanna and Roxy share their advice for people who are new to working on IoT Products.

More about Deanna and Roxy:

• Deanna on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannamshaw/
• On Twitter @DeannaMShaw - https://twitter.com/deannamshaw?lang=en
• IBM Watson IoT - https://www.ibm.com/internet-of-things
• IBM Design - https://www.ibm.com/design/
• Roxy on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxyvuong/
• On Twitter @RoxyStimpson - https://twitter.com/RoxyStimpson?lang=en
• IoTWorldLabs - http://www.iotworldlabs.com/