Why Do Developers Need Product Mindset? / Engineering Excellence

Anywhere Club Podcast

In this episode, Aleksas Drozdovskis, an Experience Consultant, and Roman Zatitsky, a Product Manager, dive into the idea of "product thinking" from an engineer’s point of view. They chat about how product thinking helps with career growth, influences business decisions, reduces team stress and burnout, and makes engineers more aligned and effective.

🔹Aleksas Drozdovskis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drozdovskis/

🔹Roman Zatitskiy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zatitskiyrb/

NAVIGATION

00:00 Introduction of Aleksas Drozdovskis

00:58 What is product mindset

04:24 Why should i care about discovery and business value

10:03 Who gets more promotion?

11:36 How product mindset can decrease the tension between engineers teams and business teams

14:27 Story about project to product transformation

17:09 How to cultivate a product-oriented culture in a team

20:53 How product mindset influence on the impact that engineers have

24:22 Engineers build features based on discovery that don't get used

28:57 Sum up

31:09 Final

COURSES FROM EPISODE

👉 Generative AI for managers: https://aw.club/global/en/courses/gen-ai-for-managers

👉 AI adoption workshop for engineering teams: https://aw.club/global/en/courses/engx-ai-adoption-workshop

👉 EngX HI: Navigating Team Dynamics: https://aw.club/global/en/courses/navigating-teams-dynamics

WHERE TO WATCH US AND LISTEN

🔸 YouTube: https://youtu.be/R9hKz5pJEwk

🔸 Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/awclub-en-apple

🔸 Spotify: https://bit.ly/awclub-en-spotify

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