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From Airline to Super App ? The Journey of AirAsia

Mind the Product

The post From Airline to Super App – The Journey of AirAsia appeared first on Mind the Product. Alfonso Fiore, Head of Product for packages at AirAsia, explains how teams might go about entering the super app race, by sharing how his team is in the process of doing exactly that, right now.

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Core Values and Agility Move Southwest Airlines Through the Good & Challenging Times | Emily Beatty & David Hawks

Agile Velocity

There have been many times in Southwest Airlines history where times were great. Watch this video to explore how Southwest Airlines’ core values and agility enabled their teams to come together during times of crisis and work towards the same goal. . About Emily Beatty | Strategist @ Southwest Airlines.

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Strategic jiujitsu: 4 Lessons from Southwest Airlines, Western Europe, and the Simpsons

The Product Coalition

Southwest Airlines gives us a great case study here. In the 1970s, all the incumbent major airlines had purchased the rights to the gates of the major airports, thus preventing new airlines from flying out of them. However, this approach had also caused those incumbent airlines to abandon gates at smaller airports.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This  That’s great training for field sales engineers or support teams, but shallow for application developers.

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Boeing Product Managers Struggle To Come Back From The 737 MAX Disaster

The Accidental Product Manager

This was followed in March when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, involving the same Max jet model, also crashed minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board. At the same time, some airlines may decide that they want to receive their aircraft earlier than was originally scheduled. 189 people died.

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Virtual Concierge Disrupt the Hospitality Industry These Days

The Product Coalition

Hotel operations can focus on developing virtual concierge services within mobile apps developed by some hotel tech companies. They can be mobile apps that are created by hospitality software development services or other mobile devices. In a savvy-tech world, one of the most innovative technologies is a virtual concierge.

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Mistakes Made By The A380 Airbus Product Managers

The Accidental Product Manager

firm Boeing and both companies sell hundreds of their large airplanes to airlines around the world. The first was that airlines would keep on using big, congested hub airports to transfer their passengers between connecting flights. Airbus is always locked in battle with the U.S. So what went wrong?