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) — Gisela's contact info: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giselacrossi • Twitter: https://twitter.com/gise_rossi • Blog: https://giselarossi.co.uk/ — 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) 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 🌐 Subscribe for free on Substack 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Listen on Spotify 🌐 Follow the host on LinkedIn 🌐 Follow the host on X
