Nikita Gupta

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Top Founders · Product vs. Engineering: The surprising way to create alignment in 2023 · 11 Jul 2023 podcast

Engineers were stressed out.

There was not a lot of innovation going on and they didn't know what to build next because everything was kind of on the go.

Here's what we have to build to make our customers happy.

Our sales and product teams were unable to share the value.

And most importantly, there was a difference in that thinking that product and engineering were really that simple.

Most teams, I don't want to speak for everyone here, but people think that product means construct a roadmap and that engineering means bring that roadmap to life.

It is not that case.

It is not that case at all.

There is so much work that goes into building a roadmap, and there's so much work that goes into bringing that roadmap to life.

So we've dealt with our PMs also thinking that, oh, I built a roadmap.

Here's what I have for the next 12 months.

This is all the features that I want launched, one feature every single month.

And the engineers are like, what the heck is this?

How can we make that happen?

There's a lot of technical debt to think about, et cetera.

So some of the lessons that we learned was that we need a clear product strategy and company vision, which I will get to in a little bit.

Communication channel between product and engineering and all hands on deck, especially in the early stage.

Simba's only at 20 employees right now.

So we did get our CEO, our senior account executive, our CMO, our marketing leaders to also come on deck and provide insights to help take our product to the next level.

So how are we going to get to the alignment?

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