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The Testing Mindset – How to Find Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

You have to invest skillfully to test these assumptions. The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Chaos Report 2015.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m 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. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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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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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

Last but not least, in customer-oriented and agile teams, decision-making criteria are often narrowed down for efficiency to a single question: What business value does this bring to the customer? After all, what could be a better stress test before pushing itforward? Of course, the latter are rarely product designers.

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Gadi Weiszlovits Lahav and Richard Still – Scaling up without slowing down

Mind the Product

In 2015 they had a team of 6 people – they are now at 80. How the FT.com Operates 9 Teams With 80 People. Technology enables the team to create quality solutions that meet the needs of their users and achieve their business goals. Make Friends With Your Procurement Team. seconds on desktop.

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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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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.