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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. 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  And the next.  But

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Post-Pandemic Mobile App Improvement Strategies by Industry | Travel & Hospitality, Retail & Shopping, Food & Drink

Alchemer Mobile

Almost all apps have experienced one of three significant changes to their DAU due to COVID-19: massive drops, huge spikes, or higher frequency of app usage. Almost all of our customers’ apps have experienced a significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. The first app is an airline, which has seen a massive drop in DAU.

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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. Background.

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??Shep Hyken on getting customers to come back again and again

Intercom, Inc.

I talked to a number of people and asked them, “If every airline took away the miles and you couldn’t get those free trips anymore, would you continue to fly on that airline?” ” Now, he is the CEO of a major hair salon, a franchisor, and I was hired to speak to over a thousand franchisees and their managers.

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

Today, people want to be able to manage their finances entirely online, a feature not every bank is currently able to provide. For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. combined with carefully carried out due diligence?—?can But why is this?

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

Lisa was a product manager we featured in a Product in Practice called Tackling Big Hairy Product Challenges with Continuous Discovery and in Chapter 13 of the book. Lisa now works for a company called Human API, where she’s a Senior Product Manager. Metrics are also included in the meetings due to popular demand.

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

I was the type of person whose job is to work with marketers, product managers, or operations folks to help them make decisions about which products to ship, which audiences to target, or if the business is performing well in certain areas and not well in others. That was my first job in tech. This is where your company Mode comes in.