Incorporating Engineers into the Entire Product Lifecycle
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Company culture drives whether engineers sit at the center of product: a startup builds a web design tool at Turtle and uses Netflix/Spotify ideas—internal information highway, full transparency of business plans, and empowering engineers to make independent decisions so they “take out the trash” in code. The approach expects prototypes fast—prototype within a week—and accepts early wrong decisions as learning, but warns against applying this when runway is short; also enforces hire no brilliant jerks.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50About Jaa
- 7:42Company Culture
- 14:15Spotify
- 14:33Alignment Autonomy
- 18:05The Big Guys
- 22:30Responsibility Shift
- 25:16What is Simple
- 27:29Equal Stress
- 28:05Trust
- 28:45Creativity
- 30:10Leading by example
- 30:50Accountability
- 31:33Advice
- 32:39End benefits
- 34:38Questions
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