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Why Wistia Turned its Company into a Mountain-Climbing Team

Amplitude

Maintaining your agility while simultaneously making the product development process predictable is one of the biggest challenges any product leader faces. This was hard for us to accept because our lack of rigid project management was exactly what had allowed us to build a great product in the first place.

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The Number One Thing Product Managers Want This Year

ProductPlan

Products launch, marketing campaigns unfurl, and execs stroll onto stage, announcing the next big thing. Yet behind the scenes, things are often much different… as nearly 1,000 product professionals in a single survey have indicated. One software product manager at a small company placed the blame on management.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

Cultures that do this can move quickly, are iterative, and are agile in the market. The first office. The product launch. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Lots of obvious downsides when this goes too far, too. People said Uber 1.0 This is the one.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

Cultures that do this can move quickly, are iterative, and are agile in the market. The first office. The product launch. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Lots of obvious downsides when this goes too far, too. People said Uber 1.0 This is the one.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

The launch of Hey, Basecamp’s new email service, has become one of the most talked about product launches of 2020- not least because of the very public fight with the Apple store. In this talk, recorded online at BoS Conf Online USA, Jason talks about the conception, design and launch of Hey email.