5/9 Critical Conversations You Forget To Have With Your Product Team: What’s the technology landscape?

Are you optimizing your product's architecture for certainty or flexibility? Discover why this distinction matters for your team's success.

In this episode of the Convergence podcast, host Ashok Sivanand reveals the fifth critical conversation that product teams often overlook: the technology landscape. Drawing from his extensive experience in product engineering and consulting, Ashok emphasizes the importance of aligning technical and business perspectives to minimize surprises and optimize product development.

Plus! Ashok answers a listener question about applying these conversations to established products. 

Ashok explores key aspects of the technology landscape, including integrations and dependencies, architecture considerations, performance expectations, and testing principles. He discusses how to balance innovation with practicality, and how to make informed decisions about scalability, reliability, and security based on your product's specific needs and market position.

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Check out the episode with a summary of all 9 conversations here: https://youtu.be/Y3NpwoFFfOs?si=enhI_mGZyDTABg6Z

In this episode:

• The importance of discussing integrations and dependencies early in the development process
• Architecting for certainty vs. uncertainty in product development
• Balancing performance expectations with pragmatic development approaches
• Considerations for tool sets, languages, and frameworks in team composition
• Navigating legacy code bases and their impact on development timelines
• Defining target devices and compatibility for mobile applications
• Establishing appropriate testing principles based on product maturity

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