Engsplaining

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, they tended to keep people from releasing features with half of the important bits completely ignored. When we ignored something, we did it intentionally, God damn it. 

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 your particular product. 

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 again if she wants to do things right, and we all know that will never happen. 

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 swear this podcast was not sponsored by LaunchDarkly, but it probably should have been. 

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. 

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. 

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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. 

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. 

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 follow along. 

In this episode, Lisa and Laura discuss who on a team is responsible for implementing different parts of Lean Startup.