Debug the Divide between Product & Engineering
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Do you see situations like these in your development team? 🧐
- 📝 Product Manager and devs talking only through tickets and not understanding each other's perspectives.
- 🚩 Prioritisation between features and technical debt becoming an us vs. them dynamic.
- 📆 Product pushing for lower estimations leading to dev teams padding them deliberately, while deadlines still get missed.
Rest assured, you are not the only one! Building a great product requires great collaboration between product people and engineers, but so often, that is not the case and the two sides find themselves at odds with one another.
But it does not have to be this way - especially as AI is increasingly blurring the lines between these roles and making the Product and Engineering partnership the ultimate competitive advantage.
For our next ProductTank Slovenia, we’re ditching the long slide decks for something much more practical. We will be joined by Denis Čahuk, an engineering leadership coach who specializes in the "human" side of tech teams. We’ll be exploring the often-misunderstood dynamics between Product Managers and Engineers, but not just as a typical "sit and listen" event. We want you to be a part of it!
Agenda for the evening:
17:45 - doors open
18:05 - organizers say hello
18:10 - Interview with Denis on Broken Team Dynamics
Common patterns behind broken team dynamics: what to look for and how to nurture improvement. Interview by Marko Jukić (ProductTank, IKEA).
18:40 - Team Blindspot Check — Got a question?
We’re hosting several interactive rounds where you in the audience will bring a real challenge to the floor. Denis and the community will help you find answers to your unique situation.
19:30 - Networking and refreshments
Whether you are a seasoned PM, a Lead Dev or just starting out, join us! The best teams aren't the ones without friction, they're the ones who learned to work through it. Come with a question, a challenge, or just an open mind.
This time our hosts will be the wonderful people of Kaldi 🐐, a Slovenian company building digital products from discovery to scale.
Grab your spot and we'll see you there!