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Building products is a team sport: Cultivating effective engineering-product partnerships

With new AI developments happening almost every day, team roadmaps evolve fast to adapt to the product and business needs; this requires a close partnership between engineering and product leaders.

Speakers: Rod Garcia

Rod Garcia
October 02, 2024

With new AI developments happening almost every day, team roadmaps evolve fast to adapt to the product and business needs; this requires a close partnership between engineering and product leaders.

In this talk we will dive into: 

  • Strategies to strengthen collaboration strategies to align engineering and product efforts effectively 
  • Tools to enhance communication practices across functions to accelerate customer value delivery 
  • How to lead innovation initiatives in tandem with product teams to achieve shared objectives 

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