Topics:

• What is a Product Minded Engineer 
• Highlight some of their key traits
• How can you become more of a product minded engineer?
• Gergely Orosz - The Product-Minded Software Engineer

About the host:

I'm Josh Hornby, a software developer from Manchester, England. I enjoy building software and managing development teams. With nearly a decade of software development experience, I understand the connections between strategy, development teams, and business goals.

I'm currently the Head of Development at a car finance startup based in the UK.

Links:

• Monday Memo Newsletter - Every Monday I send out a newsletter containing some thoughts, life lessons and interesting content I discovered on the internet that week. No matter what, I promise that each edition will be fresh and worthy of your attention.
• Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
• Or over on LinkedIn where I post often frequently.

Topics:

• First impressions count, you should aim to impress candidates at all stages of the application process
• Should you be paid for time spend working on tech tasks?
• The structure of a good job advert
• Share real examples of the work you can be expected to do at the company, list recent projects the team has worked on
• Basecamp always post great job descriptions, this one is no different.

About the host:

I'm Josh Hornby, a software developer from Manchester, England. I enjoy building software and managing development teams. With nearly a decade of software development experience, I understand the connections between strategy, development teams, and business goals.

I'm currently the Head of Development at a car finance startup based in the UK.

Links:

• Monday Memo Newsletter - Every Monday I send out a newsletter containing some thoughts, life lessons and interesting content I discovered on the internet that week. No matter what, I promise that each edition will be fresh and worthy of your attention.
• Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
• Or over on LinkedIn where I post often frequently.

Show Notes:

Questions I use to measure the health of a development team:

1. Does the team use source control?
2. Is code peer reviewed?
3. Can you make a build in 1 step?
4. Do you make a build every time a change is merged?
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6. Do you write tests to verify a bug before fixing the bug?
7. Is the code coverage greater than 80%?
8. Do you have an issue tracking system?
9. Does your team have the best tools?
10. Do you have automated unit, integration and system tests?
11. Are the unit tests automatically run before a change is merged?
12. Are the integration and systems tests automatically run before you deploy/release?
13. Do you deploy/ship the artefacts that were tested?
14. Do you have a prioritised record of your technical debt?

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