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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. Building 0 to 1 is extremely hard if the entire team isn’t bought into the vision.

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

Good Product Manager

Don’t Prioritize Features Based on Development Cost. I’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds, of different ones, and nearly all of them have one thing in common – there’s some input for development cost. SiriusDecisions Summit 2015. There’s plenty of more information on our SiriusDecisions 2015 Summit website.

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

Userpilot

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to ÂŁ100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

What it is: Asana is a versatile task management solution that allows you to manage both personal and team projects. What it does well: With a slogan like “Teamwork without email,” Asana is just that, a good collaboration tool for your team that is intended to reduce the number of back and forth emails about what needs to be done and when.

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The Ultimate Product Strategy Checklist for your Mobile App

The Product Coalition

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. an increase of 10% since the last report was released in 2015! It’s also a good idea at this point to discuss any team limitations, strengths and ways of working.

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Professional Spotlight: Zoe Chaves of Splitwise

The Product Coalition

In early 2015 I earned the promotion to product manager. What do you use to help yourself and your team stay on track? The Splitwise mobile team uses Github quite heavily. This helped me develop intuitions about our users, their needs, and our product’s strengths and weaknesses.

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