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Gibson Biddle – Wicked Hard Decisions at Netflix

Mind the Product

In 2002, Netflix went public. There was a major anthrax scare in 2002, making people afraid to open their mail. Gib explains that most decisions that were made throughout their journey were not difficult, as they were able to A/B test most things. While they had around 600,000 subscribers at launch, they had a challenge to face.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

1990: Tim Berners-Lee first tests the software that would become The World Wide Web ?? 2002 saw the start of the APM program, which Marissa Mayer introduced at Google. The new methodologies were designed to allow for better time management, and allow for more creativity. Most notable perhaps is Scrum, which was popularized in 1995.

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Rethinking the Role of Corporate Venture

The Product Coalition

Mapping Your Corporate VC Investments In 2002, Professor Henry Chesbrough asked similar questions in the Harvard Business Review , which, although triggered by slightly different events, led him to propose the following model for Mapping Your Corporate VC Investments.

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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

Userpilot

Beyond his corporate endeavors, Marty’s passion for nurturing talent and fostering innovation led him to found the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) in 2002. The three important types of validation product teams should conduct are feasibility testing, usability testing, and desirability testing.

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Top Cross-Platform App Development Companies in 2020

The Product Coalition

The company offers full-cycle app development, including initial market research, UI/UX design, prototyping, development, user testing, launch, and maintenance. With an in-house team of security experts, they can provide an end-to-end service to protect your systems, from vulnerability assessments to penetration testing and more.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

That set the scene for the Scrum certifications in about 2002. No “final integration” or “final test” or final anything. This idea of “done” requires technical excellence in the form of completed technical work: Automated unit, functional, system tests. Any other tests your product needs.

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5 Lessons from SpaceX for Product Managers in 2020

The Product Coalition

Because SpaceX is a relatively new venture in terms of humanity’s obsession with the cosmos (the company was established in 2002 and we’ve been star-gazing since Babylon) it can feel like everything they’re doing is happening very suddenly, and is therefore unrealistic. Seemingly impossible things don’t stay that way forever.