Jonathan Courtois is a Senior Principal Engineer at Sky (UK), leading the development in C++/Qt of the immersive UI experience of Entertainment OS, the operating system powering Sky Glass and Sky Stream.

In today's episode:

• What makes a great Product and Engineering relationship through the lens of a Senior Principal Engineer

• How Sky how approaches product feature development

• The future of TV and streaming experiences

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Jonathan's contact info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-courtois-8a9ab98/

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Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjwakeling

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-wakeling-26494b35/


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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:33) What the Senior Principal Engineer does at Sky and Jonathan's professional journey

(05:55) Having a strong alignment with business direction

(06:54) The Engineering and Product relationship

(09:38) How Squads and Crew function at Sky

(11:07) Some tactics on product-engineering alignment

(13:04) Advice to Product Managers

(14:36) Typical product feature development approach at Sky

(20:11) Trimming MVPs

(24:00) Accessibility within product development

(24:52) The future of TV and streaming experiences

(32:32) The power of generative AI 

(34:30) Social Media 

(36:22) The end of traditional TV?

(37:46) Where the ad money goes and impact of individual content creators

(41:39) What emerging tech Jonathan is most excited by 

(43:51) Outro

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