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 lea…

Noa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Rony Lahav about the role of QA and Automation, Why do we need QA people (or why developers shouldn’t be the only testers), Different Test - Component, Integration, System, E2E, Is Manual QA dead? We also touched on: Automation is a software project when should testing/QA stop? / what kind of bugs/edges cases ar…

Noa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Alexandra Paun (@ale_paun) about the Functional Manager hat that she often wears as part of her current job at King. We learn from Alexandra the many intersections this role has with many, if not all functions and departments in the organization, even extending outside of it to negotiate, collaborate and continu…

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 …

Noa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan meet with our lovely guest Phil Bennett to chat about Emotions at work Triggered by an article Phil Bennett wrote called The Crying Game: It’s OK to Cry at Work! Emotions are unavoidable and normal, but you have to understand the emotional Labour you’re putting on other people. That said, sometimes high emotions are the on…

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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: How do you battle the common "too many meetings" problem? Nothing scientific here, more like a quick conversation about it :) Also Available on: Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher,…

Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) Fullstack Engineer at Doodle is inviting Armin Bognar Product Advisor and Head of Product at Orderlion and Marc Sandifer Senior Product Manager at Contorion for a conversation to exchange and share their knowledge and experiences around measuring success in product companies; a topic that is or must be near and dear to e…

Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, and Alaa Sarhan meet to chat about open plan offices, and how working in them makes them feel.. We mention in this episode: The (recent) history of open plan offices Our personal experiences working in open plan offices, and other office plans Cubicles! HBR's "The Truth about Open Plan Offices" Clear glass rooms How are we dea…

A quick episode where Yael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are randomly asking themselves two questions and trying to see how they feel about them: Can you be a Manager without being an IC in the role? Can managers be friends with the people they manage? Nothing scientific here, more like a quick conversation about it :) Also Available on: Spoti…

On-Call Engineering: How to do it and smile Intro to the topic and Charity Majors What is on-call even? And why does it exist? Our Experiences with on-call? When did we start? How many years, some stories about our past and why we are talking about it How to onboard to on-call? Can it be done and actually be positive? What causes on-call to be nega…

Yael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are meeting again to talk about management, and specifically what makes a good manager, and how makes a bad one... We mentioned in this episode What is the role of a manager? What sort of manager are we talking about? Project / People / Function / Strategic / Change Management? Can an inexperienced manager be…

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 …

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 de…

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 …

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, Dat…

Anne's reading recommendations: Must have - UX Maturity Model: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-maturity-stages-1-4/ Nice to have - The role of a user researcher: https://medium.com/@stonecrops/the-researchers-journey-leveling-up-as-a-user-researcher-a85cd35b53f5 Research Ops community: https://researchops.github.io/www// Dovetail, my research r…

Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE finally came back from a long summer break and decided to talk about one on ones on episode 11 - talk about how to do them, why they are there and what the effects they have and generally what it means to have good ones and to have "bad" ones... We mentione…

Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE are happy to host Erin Jeavons-Fellows Head of Design (Product) @Delivery Hero Germany and they are talking about where from which point should designers be involved in strategy talks and how to improve our connection to users We mentioned in this episode T…

Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about Processes, how to build them right, what no to do? do overhauls ever work? and why Raz hates them so much :) During the episode we mentioned future episodes that this talk inspired us to talk about: One on Ones How to handle career growth Go…

Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about retrospectives (and why Raz is SO high on them): We talked about retrospectives, and why they are so good, why value they could bring if they are done right (and of course how to do them "the right way"). We talked about how to create action…

Tech Debt and how to get your Product Manager on board? Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about tech debt: We concluded in the episode that tech debt is a normal thing in every place, and no company or org exists without tech-debt. We mapped types of tech-debts, clarified why and …

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 …

Quick discussion about interviews and mostly what we look for in people when we interview them. Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about interviews. We mentioned in this episode The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing Also Available on: Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, Player…

Quick discussion about biases, What they are and why should we care... Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about biases. Biases: What they are and why should we care... We mentioned in this episode How to Be a Great Manager if You're Shy Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It!…

Welcome all to our new podcast, we plan to talk about different topics of the day to day tech life from our different perspectives and role. This episode contains: Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about hiring. Topic: How to hire right? Processes to support hiring and how to avoi…

Welcome all to our new podcast, we plan to talk about different topics of the day to day tech life from our different perspectives and role. This episode contains: Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about refactoring. Topic: Refactoring: What it is and what it isn't, and how to fac…

Welcome all to our new podcast, we plan to talk about different topics of the day to day tech life from our different perspectives and role. This episode contains: A brief intro about us: Yael Schweiger Product Owner and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager Topic: Should Engineers write User Stories? Topic 1.1: Who should write the technical tasks? Topic …