Jonathan Courtois is a Senior Principal Engineer at Sky (UK), leading the development in C++/Qt of the immersive UI experience of Entertainment OS, the operating system powering Sky Glass and Sky Stream. In today's episode: • What makes a great Product and Engineering relationship through the lens of a Senior Principal Engineer • How Sky how approaches product feature development • The future of TV and streaming experiences — Jonathan's contact info: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-courtois-8a9ab98/ — Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjwakeling • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-wakeling-26494b35/ — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introduction (01:33) What the Senior Principal Engineer does at Sky and Jonathan's professional journey (05:55) Having a strong alignment with business direction (06:54) The Engineering and Product relationship (09:38) How Squads and Crew function at Sky (11:07) Some tactics on product-engineering alignment (13:04) Advice to Product Managers (14:36) Typical product feature development approach at Sky (20:11) Trimming MVPs (24:00) Accessibility within product development (24:52) The future of TV and streaming experiences (32:32) The power of generative AI (34:30) Social Media (36:22) The end of traditional TV? (37:46) Where the ad money goes and impact of individual content creators (41:39) What emerging tech Jonathan is most excited by (43:51) Outro 🌐 Subscribe for free on Substack 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Listen on Spotify 🌐 Follow the host on LinkedIn 🌐 Follow the host on X
