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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Lenny Rachitsky

He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. Kayvon treated sacred cows like a “built-in roadmap” of innovations worth testing. Twitter accelerated cultural change and innovation through many small acquihires.

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Prioritizing Features; Three Questions About Product Management; SiriusDecisions 2015 Summit

Good Product Manager

SiriusDecisions Summit 2015. “SD101″ sessions that provide introductions to some of the core models and frameworks that we use with product management leaders and their teams. There’s plenty of more information on our SiriusDecisions 2015 Summit website. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) April 7, 2015.

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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

Trevor Acy is the Associate Director of Product Management at Ramsey Solutions , where he started working in 2015 and moved into his current role in June 2022. He asked the community how to determine when a trio should run through the entire pattern of identifying and testing assumptions vs. building something quickly to learn.

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The evolution of Ember at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

“Our growth is not just in our office, but growth in customers, revenue, people, dinners, lunches, lines of code, bugs, features, tests, everything” A lot has changed in the past six years across the board, but looking at technology, the web, JavaScript, there has been huge change. This is a slide from a talk that I gave in 2015.

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UX Strategy: Step-By-Step Guide for SaaS Companies

Userpilot

Once you start implementing your UX strategy, keep testing and experimenting and use the insights to inform future iterations. This involves researching and understanding user needs and pain points to create a framework for a product’s design and functionality and aligning it with business objectives. Goal-setting framework.

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UX Job Interview Guide: Screening interview

UX Planet

My involvement spanned research, implementation, user research, collaboration with the product manager for feature scoping, design concept creation, prototyping, and user testing ( skills ) for a hybrid mobile app (relevant experience). Common questions include: Interest and Motivation: Why do you want to work here?

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

Steve Blank, the father of Lean Startup, was my professor at Berkley and he got me into, “You need to get out of the building and test and iterate.” And ultimately, we launched in 2015 and we’ve been iterating ever since. ” So we did that. It took us 13 iterations of the product. Making the move.