Nikita Gupta

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

And is it OK to get the feature faster at user's hands to be able to collect feedback earlier rather than later?

So these are also some decisions that we had to make.

The product team was working on creating designs and creating the different features, which we handed off to engineering.

But engineering was given the freedom to think about how they could simplify that feature as long as we were able to deliver the same value.

That also allowed them to think that they had more power in their hands and that they could build smartly rather than just build what was given to them.

We also had to spend a lot of time thinking about how we prioritize features.

What I noticed from my team is that we always have to think two steps ahead.

So when we were working on the designs for feature number two, we already thought about what was going to come next and for feature number three.

And because of that, our engineers got excited knowing that they were building something, but they had another feature that was up for them to build next.

right after.

So this also gave them kind of the mental energy that we need to build it faster because we have another feature waiting for us to build.

We're really excited about that feature too.

So it allowed them to speed things up and it got them excited and it's smart because they can also think about the different dependencies as they build new features.

So fostering empathy and lowering the ego was really just the biggest surprise or the biggest lesson that we learned.

And it was very surprising because only when there was empathy coming from both sides, from product and engineering, that's when...

we had a lot of alignment.

So I can confidently say that the roadmap that I just showed you for the next 12 months, we have been hitting all of our goals so far in the last four months.

We are on track to hit and produce all of our next features and launch them to production.

And because of these lessons that are learned and the templates that we created and the strategy that we worked to do Simba 2.0, we have been able to get there.

So, yeah, so I spoke about our journey, what is alignment, how do we get there, and how we can make it sustainable.

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