This talk will be geared to an audience of project and product managers and explain how I take an engineering-centric approach to project and product management and how that has helped my teams build a best in class VOD and live media pipeline. At Disney Streaming Services formerly BAMTech, formerly MLB Advanced Media, we have excelled at being on the forefront of a changing live and VOD media landscape for years. As our company hones in on establishing ESPN+ and launching Disney+ in 2019 and beyond, we need to continue to charge forward but invest in the best and most compelling features and functions that fit our platform as these applications evolve. Often, laying the foundation to be able to deliver when it matters the most has to be done months or years in advance. In this session, I’d like to talk through how, as a project manager, or a product stakeholder of a media team you can build roadmaps, structure projects and work with engineers and engineering teams to create a resilient platform that anticipates future requirements and product goals. My presentation will be unique because I will talk through my unique experiences; beginning with my career as a project manager working on the VOD ingest and processing pipeline for the launch of HBO Now. How I expanded into the live space and was the lead project manager in delivering live, ad supported NFL games via the BAMTech platform on Twitter and taking our DAI solution fully cloud-based and scalable. And how, over the course of several years as the project manager overseeing the delivery of our internally developed live encoding and packaging solution for ESPN+ and the MLB 2018 season, I anticipated requirements and delivered despite ambiguity. I now own Disney Streaming Services’s media engineering roadmap and lead a team of project managers responsible for ingesting, processing and distributing all of the media for the Disney+ application. I will speak to how working closely with engineers throughout my career has evolved my process and offer tips on how project and product managers looking to navigate our challenging field can do the same. Presented at Demuxed 2019 in San Francisco.