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Product and Engineering Culture - The Most Important Things to Know to Make Engineering and Product Effective

DESCRIPTION: Product Management and Engineering are most commonly seen as two separate groups with separate and inward-facing measures of effectiveness. When the effectiveness metrics of these teams are not evaluated together, the two groups are typically driven out of alignment with each other and worse, out of alignment with the rest of the company. Although not commonly practiced, there are better measures of effectiveness that will not only align Product Management with Engineering and align both groups with the rest of the company, but will also aid in alignment among executives and recruiting.

In this talk, we will discuss common evaluation metrics of Product Management and of Engineering and why they fail, and propose a better structure that unites the teams and aligns their goals, as opposed to setting them at odds with each other.

SPEAKER BIO: David Subar is the founder and managing partner of Interna, a consultancy that enables technology companies to ship better products faster, to achieve product-market fit more quickly, and to deploy capital more efficiently. Interna has worked with companies ranging in size from small, six-member startups to the Walt Disney Company, and helped Pluto on the way to its $320MM sale to Paramount and Lynda.com on the path to its $1.5B sale to Linkedin.

Prior to founding Interna, David was CTO and CPO of a number of companies, including ZestFinance, Break Media, and Interthinx. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the LA CTO Forum.

To learn more about David Subar, you can find his Interna profile here: https://www.interna.com/davidsubar

To contact David, please reach out on the Interna website: https://www.interna.com/contact

For more of his insights, you can follow David on Social:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dsubar
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsubar/
Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@dsubar

AGENDA:

6:30 - 7:00 Networking - Arrive early and hang out with us!
7:00 - 7:10 Intro
7:10 - 8:30 Presentation
8:30 - 8:35 Closing
8:35 - 8:45 Networking

LOCATION: Online via Zoom (RSVP to see link)

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