We actively participate in Product Discovery (in close collaboration with the rest of the discovery crew…. usually product managers and product designers) to assess the technical possibilities and understand/test the feasibility of potential solutions that meet customer needs.
Expectations / Description
- We work closely with product managers and product designers to assess the technical feasibility of solutions that meet customer needs by providing insight and answering questions such as:
- What is the very early feasibility analysis that ensures there’s a manageable amount of risk as it moves into delivery (likely giving best case worst case based on nothing more than wireframes)?
- What delivery goals are possible in a given time period with a given amount of engineering resources?
- What are the impacts the potential solutions may have on our existing systems?
- Check out this lesson for more details!
Requirements
- Discovery Engineer's must have a position with the reach of 2.2 or higher
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Ruby
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Delivery Forecasting
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Product Discovery
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Web Technologies
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Rails
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,React
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Data
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Collaboration
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Estimation
- Discovery Engineer's must be milestone 1+,Engineering Communication
Configuration Health
- ✅ Has 10 Abilities
- ✅ Is a part of 1 Position
- ✅ Has been referenced in 5 pieces of public recognition
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- ⛔️ Last updated: over 4 years ago
- ℹ️ Never conversed about
Examples / Observations
Observation created almost 6 years agoConlin has officially sent out THE best meeting invite ever. He included a nicely formatted layout with three sections:
- what the general situation is and purpose for the meeting, including a freaking timeboxed 😍 and labeled agenda 🎉🎉🎉
- why the meeting is needed
- who will be attending the meeting and what they bring to the table in terms of how they can contribute to finding a solution
Conlin has simultaneously set us up for success in the best way possible while also being incredibly mindful of everyone's time. His thoughtfulness here helped me to feel incredibly valued. I think this is super awesome and is a setup that I want to follow in the future. Thanks Conlin!
Observation created almost 6 years agoFeaturing:Ethan M.Joseph A.Joshua A.Waseem D.We ask clarifying questionsWe get agreementsWe inspire others to do better workCommunityDesign CollaborationBack-end engineerFront-end engineerDiscovery engineerEpic shaperStory shaperI am grateful for how these 4 have been communicating on this project. This is a complex project for a variety of reasons. We are splitting up the frontend and the backend. Linking elements in our app is a difficult endeavor. The way these four have communicated to one another and to me has been such a joy. Whether it be Waseem posting killer updates in the channel, Joshua and Joseph presenting their findings on technical deep dives, or Ethan walking me through expectations on epic breakdown, everyone has chipped in to really get this off the ground.
I have been inspired to bring the level of clarity I have found here in other aspects of my job.
Observation created almost 6 years agoFeaturing:Conlin D.We put learners firstWe share before we're readyWe ask clarifying questionsWe highlight what's workingWe own our requestsWe recognize the opportunity in challengesWe inspire others to do better workWe don't wait to be told what to do, we take initiativeWe put the team before ourselvesWe challenge ourselvesWe critique, we don't complainCommunityInitiativeMentorshipProduct DiscoveryDiscovery engineerFront-end architectFront-end engineerLast week, I did a code review for Conlin. In the PR description, he did a phenomenal job at leaving detailed testing steps and notes around why the story was necessary. Beyond that, however, he also went out of his way to thoroughly talk through the issue on a deeper level. He explained the research he did on the problem, potential solutions (and why they wouldn't work), his decided solution (and why it does work), as well as the history and potential future of the problem. As both a reviewer and fellow engineer, I was really impressed by how much thought and effort went into this.
While I already find myself aiming to be as clear and informative as possible in my PR descriptions, seeing this inspired me to raise my standard going forward, and left me feeling grateful to work with Conlin.PR of Reference - https://github.com/lessonly/lessonly/pull/7482
Observation created over 6 years agoSo I thought this was worthy of a video shoutout here: https://www.loom.com/share/88ee172369584e2b8584ec5faf8af675
In short, Conlin took just a couple hours to put together a spike (check out his post about it here: https://lessonly.slack.com/archives/C8UPX4UPM/p1557925515038000) for Lessonly Conversations that enables our team to test our riskiest assumptions with customers, get closer to reality without writing much code, and begin the learning process on a 2019 commitment. This is a great example of sharing before ready, experimenting rapidly to begin learning, and trying something new!
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