Perceived Quality & Trade-offs between Product and Engineering with Alaa Sarhan

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In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Alaa Sarhan, the CTO at wundertax.
Alaa is not only a great engineer, but also someone who is passionate and caring when it comes to product. You'll hear about the idea of perceived quality, as well as how to balance off product and engineering when creating high-quality products.
Find Alaa on:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlaaSarhan_WTX
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alaas/
Alaa's reading recommendations:

• Books:
  • "INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love" - Marty Cagan
  • "Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World" - Gen. Stanley McChrystal
  • "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable" by Patrick Lencioni
• Alaa's blog posts:
  • Teams are important: https://alaasarhan.me/teams/2021/11/14/teams-are-important/
  • Product - draft definition: https://alaasarhan.me/product_developers/2019/04/28/product-developers-draft-definition/

Further reading recommendations for some mentioned concepts:

• Lina's Quality Foundations series: https://qualitybits.tech/writing/quality-foundations/
• "Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons & Pat Kua
• Rebecca Parsons' talk "Building Evolutionary Architectures: Principles and Practices" at Agile meets Architecture conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQBlyAxPje0

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Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina
- LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte
- Website: https://qualitybits.tech/
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