ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Discover how engineering leaders in gaming navigate the constant tension between keeping the lights on and building what's next. Meir Wasserman shares hard-earned lessons from EA Sports, Amazon Games, and 2K Games on driving change, creating urgency, and evolving as a leader, plus his take on how AI is reshaping the engineering workflow.
Main Topics Covered:
- Balancing operational toil with delivering customer value and new features
- Driving organizational change: why the hardest part is people, not technology
- A practical heuristic for deciding which operational problems are worth fixing
- Scaling leadership: staying connected to your org as it grows beyond one team
- A skip-level meeting format for staying connected without micromanaging
- Why leaders must be the source of urgency for their top priorities
- Simplifying complexity as a core leadership skill to rally teams around problems
- Evolving views on AI: from skepticism to excitement about agentic workflows
- The shift from writing code to engineering outcomes, and what that means for the profession
- Bridging the gap between vibe coding and production-grade, enterprise-level code
- AI economics and the coming shift from flat pricing to consumption or value-based models
Connect with Meir Wasserman: LinkedIn + Blog
Connect with Stephen Koza: LinkedIn
Connect with EverOps
References:
- Book: Amp It Up by Frank Slootman
- Tool: NotebookLM by Google
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