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Noa Tamir (Data Science Manager) and Raz Shuty (Engineering Manager) share with Alaa Sarhan (IC Fullstack-er) what management is about in general and why an IC (Individual Contributor) is nowadays more than ever empowered to not become a manager for the...

Episode 25: Why you shouldn't be a manager

Noa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Rony Lahav about the role of QA and Automation, Why do we need QA people (or why developers shouldn’t be the only testers), Different Test - Component, Integration, System, E2E, Is Manual QA dead?We also touched...

Episode 24: QA, Automation, and everything in between

Noa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Alexandra Paun (@ale_paun) about the Functional Manager hat that she often wears as part of her current job at King.We learn from Alexandra the many intersections this role has with many, if not all functions and...

A quick episode where Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) are randomly asking themselves a question and trying to see how they feel about it, in 20 minutes:Have you used any persona framework at work. If so what did you like about it? What...

Quickpoint Charlie Episode 4: Persona frameworks for a team event

Noa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan meet with our lovely guest Phil Bennett to chat about Emotions at workTriggered by an article Phil Bennett wrote called The Crying Game: It’s OK to Cry at Work!Emotions are unavoidable and normal, but you have to understand the...

Episode 22: Emotions at work (with Phil Bennett)

Extra stuff from our emotions at work episode: Games and Remote Emotions at work

A quick episode where Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) are randomly asking themselves a question and trying to see how they feel about it, in 20 minutes:How do you battle the common "too many meetings" problem? Nothing scientific here,...

Quickpoint Charlie Episode 3: Too Many Meetings

Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) Fullstack Engineer at Doodle is inviting Armin Bognar Product Advisor and Head of Product at Orderlion and Marc Sandifer Senior Product Manager at Contorion for a conversation to exchange and share their knowledge and...

Podcast, Techpoint Charlie, Open Office, Cubicles, Team Rooms

Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, and Alaa Sarhan meet to chat about open plan offices, and how working in them makes them feel..

Episode 20: Open Plan Offices: 3 hosts, too many feelings 

Management, Leadership, Podcast, Techpoint Charlie, Good Manager, Bad Manager

Episode 18: Can you be a Manager without being an IC in the role? Can managers be friends with the people they manage?

Episode 19 (Quickpoint Charlie Episode 2): Talking about Managers

on-call, incident management, Podcast, Techpoint Charlie, pager duty, opsgenie

On-Call Engineering: How to do it and smileIntro to the topic and Charity MajorsWhat is on-call even? And why does it exist?Our Experiences with on-call?When did we start? How many years, some stories about our past and why we are talking about it How...

Episode 18: On Call Engineering: How to do it and Smile with Charity Majors

Yael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are meeting again to talk about management, and specifically what makes a good manager, and how makes a bad one... 

Data Science, Podcast, Techpoint Charlie, Data Engineering, Data, Data Analyst

Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and our awesome guest Noa Tamir (first returning guest!) are talking about what is the role of a data scientist 

Episode 16: What is the role of Data Scientist?

Product Development, Podcast, Techpoint Charlie, Product Driven, Product Developer

what is product-driven development? What is this new trend called Product-Developers? 

Episode 15: What is Product-minded Engineering? What are product-minded developers?

Noa Tamir is our awesome new host, and Raz Shuty met remotely to talk about remote work, but also about this specific occasion of remote work with Covid-19...Trying to understand what is remote work first of all, what are our feelings and experiences...

Episode 14: Remote Work: past, COVID19, and future

Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and our awesome guest Noa Tamir are trying to make sense of the data of data science, what are the different roles? What is the difference between User Research, Market Research, Data Science Researchers, Business Analysts, Business Intelligence, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers?

Episode 13: Let's make sense of Data Science

The UX Maturity Model “User-centered” is a buzzword your organisation uses? Time or an honest self-assessment.

Management, Leadership, Podcast, Techpoint Charlie, One on One. One to One

Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE finally came back from a long summer break and decided to talk about one on ones on episode 11 - talk about how to do them, why they are there and what the effects they have and generally what it means to have good ones and to have "bad" ones...

Tech,Product,Engineering,Design,UX,Planning,Strategy 

What it means for everyone to have design and UX leading the strategy?

Episode 10: What it means for everyone to have design and UX leading the strategy?

Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about Processes, how to build them right, what no to do? do overhauls ever work? and why Raz hates them so much :)During the episode we mentioned...

Episode 9: Processes - How to build processes that would work for you and not you enslaved to them?

Tech, Product, Engineering, Retrospectives, Process, Retrospective, Agile

Discussion between Raz and Yael about: What are retrospectives, are there right ways to do them, what are pitfalls that might come with them and why we (Yael and Raz) are so high on them 

Episode 8: Retrospectives - How to do them right and what pitfalls to avoid?

We concluded in the episode that tech debt is a normal thing in every place, and no company or org exists without tech-debt. We mapped types of tech-debts, clarified why and how they happen and discussed strategies of dealing with them + strategies of communication about them 

Episode 7: Tech Debt and how to get your Product Manager on board?

Tech, Product, Engineering, OKR, organisational culture, Bunch.ai

Super interesting talk with Charles about organisational culture and why should organisations care

Episode 6: What is organisational culture anyway? (With Charles)

Tech, Product, Engineering, Interviews, Process, How to Interview, How to be interviewed 

What we look for in people when we interview (As a "Techy" and a "Producty")

Episode 5: Interviews - What we look for in people when we interview

Quick discussion about biases, What they are and why should we care... 

Episode 4 (Quickpoint Charlie Episode 1): Biases...

How to hire right? Processes to support hiring and how to avoid biases?

Episode 3: Hiring - How to build a hiring process and how to make it bias free if possible?

Tech, Refactoring, Product, Engineering, Agile, Extreme Programming, Marie Kondo, No Tarbut, Goosdt

How to have an actually enjoyable conversation about refactoring

Episode 2: Refactoring What it is, what it isn’t and how to factor it in your work

Tech, User Stories, Product, Engineering, OKR, Process, Agile

Let's try and answer a big question, Should Engineers Write User Stories?

Episode 1: Should Engineers Write User Stories?

Product, Engineering, Data Science, User Experience, Design, Tech, Culture, Techpoint, Charlie

Techpoint Charlie

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