Slides for a talk in Cherkassy dev community event

1. Programmer -> developer
-> product engineer

2. Getting going with
computers
• Fun to learn
• Fun to make boxes bounce
• Fun to hack and bend machines under your will

3. Becoming a programmer
• Questions on my mind:
• What do the specifications say?
• How do I implement this algorithm?
• How do I write this method?
• How do I make the design pixel perfect?

4. Turning yourself into a
Developer
• What’s the difference?
• Questions on my mind:
• What are the requirements?
• How do I solve this problem?
• How do I design this form?
• How do I make this query 2x faster?

5. Head first into Product
Development
• What does this mean?
• Questions on my mind:
• What are the opportunities to make our product
better?
• How do I choose which one to work on?
• How do I deliver most value in the fastest way?
• How do I make sure I can do it sustainably?

6. How to build a solution?
How to solve a problem?
Which problem to solve?

7. My solution doesn’t work
My solution doesn’t
solve the problem
My solution solves the
wrong problem