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The MVP Journey: Engineering-Product Collaboration for Iterative Success | Gisela Rossi (Technology Leader)

• Adam Wakeling • Season 1 • Episode 5

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Gisela Rossi is a technology leader, public speaker and mentor, and currently working as Engineering Manager at HSBC. 

She was previously Engineering Manager at Pollen, WISE YP Board Member and a Software Engineer at Facebook, among other roles.



In today's episode:

• What a great Engineering Management and Product Management relationship looks like

• Building trust in a development team

• How to successfully launch and iterate on a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

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Gisela's contact info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giselacrossi

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/gise_rossi

• Blog: https://giselarossi.co.uk/
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Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjwakeling

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-wakeling-26494b35/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Podcast Introduction

(00:39) What will be covered in today's episode

(01:09) Engineering Manager and Product Manager relationship

(05:04) Importance of trust in a team 

(11:44) Tactics on improving alignment 

(14:05) What is an MVP?

(16:23) Trimming an MVP

(21:56) Who defines success of an MVP?

(25:00) Building MVPs in challenging financial conditions

(33:11) The value of OKRs 

(33:33) Common mistakes in MVP builds

(38:44) Experience working as a mentor 

(42:29) Outro