Product-Focused Processes & Pressing The Big Scary Red Reset Button

Summary:

7pm. Talk 1 - Optimizing Product-Focused Processes for Engineers and Designers, Malcolm Ong, CTO of SkillShare

8pm. Talk 2 -Pressing The Big Scary Red Reset Button, Daniel Doubrovkine, Head of Engineering, Art.sy

9pm Hanging out at a Local Bar.  Gatsby's NYC, http://www.gatsbysnyc.com/, 53 Spring Street.   Last time we had about 20 people join, please come along!

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Summary:

7pm. Talk 1 - Optimizing Product-Focused Processes for Engineers and Designers, Malcolm Ong, CTO of SkillShare

8pm. Talk 2 -Pressing The Big Scary Red Reset Button, Daniel Doubrovkine, Head of Engineering, Art.sy

9pm Hanging out at a Local Bar.  Gatsby's NYC, http://www.gatsbysnyc.com/, 53 Spring Street.   Last time we had about 20 people join, please come along!

 

Full Description

Talk 1 - Optimizing Product-Focused Processes for Engineers and Designers, Malcolm Ong, CTO of SkillShare

As a technical leader, CTO, or even somebody not in formal leadership position, part of your responsibilities to your team is to help improve the product development process. Work smarter, not harder and foster more innovation.

While Agile is a software development process, Malcolm will show why and how it's better to have a more Product focused process.

We'll cover the following Product philosophy / process topics:

Product strategy and vision
3/1 process
Continuous deployment, never launching, and failing fast
Being mini-CEO's in your company
Being solution driven
Relentless focus & simplicity
Gettings things done
Continuous learning
Team Communication

This talk will be a shorter version of class Malcolm is teaching at SkillShare   

http://www.skillshare.com/Optimizing-Product-Focused-Processes-for-Engineers-and-Designers/476635669

Malcolm Ong is the Co-founder, CTO, and Head of Product at Skillshare. Previously, Malcolm was the Product Manager at OMGPOP, a Senior Technologist at Razorfish, an E-Commerce Specialist at IBM Global Services, and a graduate of IBM's Extreme Blue program where he co-filed four patents. Malcolm graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science with a dual major in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.

 

Talk 2 - Pressing The Big Scary Red Reset Button, Daniel Doubrovkine, Head of Engineering, Art.sy

A CTO is responsible for the company's technical vision. The excitement of stepping into this role is often shadowed by the harsh reality of failing projects that ran many times over budget, obsolete technology choices made by your predecessor, fleeing customers, panicking executives, crumbling architectures and demotivated teams. It's a challenge! Time to make difficult decisions and press the big, scary, red reset button. In this talk, we'll examine a few examples that lead to resets of hopeless projects, consequences of such decisions, project successes and failures. We'll also propose ways to introduce resets in a more positive light and examine how that can impact outcomes.

Daniel Doubrovkine (aka dB.) founded and sold a start-up in the early 90s and completely failed another. He was development lead at Microsoft Corp., Director at Kleiner Perkins Visible Path, Architect and Development Manager at AppSecInc., an Enterprise Software company. Daniel is an open-source cheerleader and avid tech blogger and currently serves as Head of Engineering at Art.sy.

 

3. After-hour drinks. Hanging out at a Local Bar.  Gatsby's NYC, http://www.gatsbysnyc.com/, 53 Spring Street.   Last time we had about 20 people join, please come along!

 

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