Engsplaining Podcast
1) The Declining Art of Product Specifications
In this episode, Laura and Lisa wax nostalgic about product specifications. It's been so long since either of them wrote one, that they can actually think of a few nice things to say! For example, the...Show More
2) Magical Super Hero PMs
In this episode, Lisa and Laura discuss the many many things we expect of Product Managers and why that might be just a tad unrealistic! We also discuss a few strategies for finding the right PM for y...Show More
3) Why Pivots Are Hard
In this episode, Laura and Lisa talk about all the reasons you're doing pivots wrong. It turns out that doing them right is really hard! Laura realizes she's going to have to talk to the engineers aga...Show More
4) Feature Flags
Laura gets waaaaay too excited about feature flags, and Lisa very kindly does not mock her too much. They discuss how to use flags to control feature launches and prevent giant merge conflicts. I ...Show More
5) Git 101
Lisa engsplains Git and Github to Laura. They discuss some best practices for setting things up to be right for your particular team, and Laura worries needlessly about merge conflicts.
6) You Need to Do More Testing
In this episode, Laura and Lisa talk about different forms of automated testing your team should be doing, what they're good for, and how to convince your coworkers that testing makes things go faster...Show More
7) How Engineering and Product Can Communicate Better
In this episode, Laura and Lisa talk about the best way to annoy your counterpart in Product or Engineering. And, you know, also how to not do that so that we can maybe get something done.
8) APIs Part 2: the Versioning
Not content with telling you how you're probably building your APIs wrong, Laura and Lisa discuss how you're almost certainly breaking versioning, documentation, and support of them in APIs, part 2.
9) APIs Part 1
In this episode, Laura and Lisa discuss APIs - what they are, what you should know about them, and all the different ways we get them wrong when implementing them. Lisa uses small words so the PMs can...Show More
10) Whose Job is Lean Startup
In this episode, Lisa and Laura discuss who on a team is responsible for implementing different parts of Lean Startup.