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The Engineering Leadership Podcast

Operating in a high-stakes, high-scale environment & implementing “secure by design” w/ Bhawna Singh #148

Oct 3, 2023
Bhawna Singh, CTO @ Okta, shares strategies for re-architecting your product roadmap, collaborating with customers, setting up guardrails while scaling, and communicating throughout the prioritization process. She also discusses the importance of 'secure by design' approach and its implementation at Okta.
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  • Collaborating with customers and prioritizing their needs is crucial for product success and satisfaction.
  • Implementing the principle of 'secure by design' is essential in building scalable and secure products.

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Scenario Planning and Accelerating Software Delivery

The podcast episode features a special in-episode feature on scenario planning and accelerating software delivery. The focus is on the importance of shipping software and dealing with issues that arise during the delivery process. The episode highlights the need to assess and adjust the scope of projects to accelerate software delivery, emphasizing the mantra of planning for 10x but building for what is needed. The podcast also touches on the challenge of scaling faster than customers in order to avoid being a blocker, and the shift in priorities when unexpected market growth occurs.

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