The State of Product Development 🔍 — with Doug Peete

About this episode

Doug Peete discusses the state of product development and insights from a recent industry report.

Today's guest is Doug Peete , Chief Product Officer at Atono, with whom over the last few months we have developed a deep industry report about the state of product development.In this chat we'll go through the main findings of the report, match them to our respective experience and explore ideas about how teams can do better with product development and AI( 00:00 ) Episode start( 01:38 ) Introduction( 02:39 ) Sponsor break( 05:38 ) Frailty of planning process( 10:58 ) Product( 13:19 ) What needs to be done( 20:38 ) Design reviews( 26:33 ) How to improve requirements( 27:41 ) Knowledge across teams( 35:07 ) Capturing the history of a product( 39:14 ) Enabling sharing process( 47:17 ) New metrics in AI era( 50:47 ) AI in product requirements and products specs-Today's episode is brought to you by Unblocked.Unblocked is the context layer for modern engineering teams.Get a free three-week trial at getunblocked.com/refactoring- You can also find this at: • 📬 Newsletter: https://refactoring.fm • 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Luds9dmzZDoDC8Q7EMbSw • 📱 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/refactoring-podcast/id1719137305 — For inquiries about sponsoring the…

People in this episode

Host: Luca Rossi

Guest: Doug Peete

Topics covered

• product development
• AI
• team collaboration
• industry report
• design reviews
• requirements improvement

Keywords

• product development
• AI
• team collaboration
• design reviews
• requirements
• metrics

Sponsors

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Organizations: Atono

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