What I've learned on Being a better Engineer from being a Product Manager by Noa Katsovich

As developers, when we start hearing about the feature we are going to develop - we begin to imagine the solution in our heads and try to solve the challenge as soon as we can. But WAIT - is it the RIGHT solution? We may develop quality code and still produce mediocre software. This is why we should look more into the context of software as a whole.

In this talk, we will explore some questions we should ask ourselves before starting to code. After this talk, you will learn what is required to code more efficiently. After a couple of times, it can become your superpower! Trust me; I'm a product manager.

About Noa

Noa has more than a decade of experience as a Software Engineer and a Product Manager - Creating, designing and executing products. Now she works as a Product Manager at Fiverr.

Noa holds an MBA with a specialization in technology management from the College of Management and a B.Sc in Computer Science.
She's also the founder of LIFT, an initiative to engage and empower women in organizations, powered by Woman2Woman – 8200 Alumni association.

In her spare time, she enjoys CrossFit, yoga and coffee - not necessarily in that order.

[abeljoshua]

My key takeaway is "The best engineer is not the one who understands the technology stack. It's the one who understands the problem, business goal, and the big picture."

Thank you Noa Katsovich, thank you JsConf.

[TomNook.]

If you need the software engineers to ask the business case and do primary user research, you've lost.

By the time the tasks are divided up and reach engineers, the business case, comprehensive user research, key technical architecture would have already been decided. Not fixed, but certainly not something the developers have to think about. I'm honestly shocked that established companies do not think like this...

[jakubprzybyowicz]

Please put some sort of a DeEsser on that mic recording.

[pperez]

Great code does not imply great product but great product implies great code . my 2 cents, +20 years of experience, 10+ companies

[EvolMate]

Sadly, such things do not really work as advice.
You need own experience to understad the simple idea, that whatever you are making it should have value to the business, first of all, and what parts do that value consist of.
"Word-expressed Tao is a fake Tao"