Tangled Roots of Job Titles
S1:E4

Tangled Roots of Job Titles

On why we struggle with defining what we do.

This time we took the scenic route to Three Border Mountain in the Buda Hills and let the dogs frolic in the wildflower fields, while we fought with job titles and talked about how we work.

The path we took:
  • Defining service design, and the difference between a service and a product.
  • Working "in business" and business in a job title.
  • What makes someone an expert in something - with a short rant on the inflation of knowledge.
  • Developers coding in a dark room and other layers of creating value with code.
  • Agile coaches, scrum, and Shape Up; frameworks for working together and decisionmaking.
  • How working on strategy looks like vs how the visionary designer is pictured.
  • How to bring an outside perspective and install lasting changes in an organization.
  • And how our job is sometimes like therapy - people getting all vulnerable and being open to change.
Grab your headphones, and head to the nearest lookout to walk with us!

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Creators and Guests

Anikó Vera Fejes
Host
Anikó Vera Fejes
I'm a software developer who tried a lot of things but ultimately decided to hide from the world in the woods.
Juli Mata
Host
Juli Mata
I work in product, and I come from (product-service-system) design. I focus on help linking product to business strategy these days.