Last year we got together to talk about who a product engineer is, why should a developer develop product thinking, how to find a balance between product and development (the entries can be found here ).
In the upcoming meeting, we will focus on the development culture in product companies.
The speakers are engineers and product managers from Badoo, ManyChat, Dodo Pizza and Rabota.ru. Let's talk about what practices help teams create quality products. Let's discuss which development processes help to focus on delivering value to users and meet deadlines. Let's consider how to find a trade-off between business and development and define the boundaries of responsibility.
We hope that the meeting will be useful to all members of the product teams - engineers, product managers, tech and team leaders.
Registration is available via the link , and read the details of the program under the cut.
Reports
Feature evolution story: from MVP to one of the main product functionalities - Evgeny Zhukov, Backend Developer (ManyChat)
I'll tell you the story of the integration of ManyChat with Shopify, one of the leading e-commerce platforms. From the report, you will learn how the MVP assembled in a week on the knee has evolved over the course of the year and has grown into a full-fledged separate direction in our product. I will share the versioning problems we encountered. And I'll tell you about the metrics: what we use, and how exactly they help us.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Believing A / B Testing - 2 - Maxim Kislov, Frontend Engineering Manager (Badoo)
After you beat A / B tests and integrate them into your work environment, it seems like you're over. In fact, the adventure is just beginning: the team does not have accumulated expertise, the processes are not streamlined, and the business wants to rely on A / B testing to make key decisions and expects results. I will tell:
- how to organize work with A / B tests within the company;
- how to give a business an answer to the question “how is our test?”;
- how to define the boundaries of the tech lead's responsibility and share responsibility with the product.
The initiative is not punishable. Why it is important to immerse a developer in the food life - Lasha Kharchilava, Lead Product Manager (Rabota.ru)
- What a new product needs to do on the first day to make a developer's life better.
- What is grocery onboarding and why is it for a developer.
- Why do we need developers in the short and medium term planning of product tasks.
- Action plan: there is a problem - ask the developer first.
- What is the relationship between developers and AB test results.
How the product was released six months later, and the revision of the development processes taught us to meet the deadlines - Boris Gern, B2C Product Lead (Dodo Pizza)
There are many different development methodologies, at Dodo we are constantly experimenting with it by combining different frameworks.
Each team at Dodo has its own approach to building processes, it is important to find your own as early as possible, otherwise it will be difficult for the company to scale.
The presentation describes how the team of one of our products came to their workflow:
- What mistakes were made at the start
- At what point did we realize that something was going wrong
- What steps were taken to rectify the situation
- What practices and processes turned out to be working, what we use now
- What conclusions have we made and how we plan to apply it in the future
Participation
The meeting will take place online on 22 September. Beginning at 19:00.
The reports will be broadcasted on YouTube, and it will be possible to communicate with speakers and other participants in Zoom and telegram chat . For the most persistent, we will organize an online bar after the main program.
To participate, you need to fill out the registration form to receive a link to connect and a reminder of the broadcast.