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Hi Fly: A Lean Airline Story

Melissa Perri

But on one trip back from London, I got a surprising test message. I had never heard of this HiFly airline before. HiFly is an airline for hire. Because their planes are unmarked, they can fly routes for all major airlines and private companies. It also greatly reduces the risk for starting new airlines.

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Webinar: How Southwest Airlines’ Agile Transformation Helped Them Adapt to Unpredictable Challenges

Agile Velocity

According to Airlines for America, U.S. passenger airlines incurred $35B in net losses in 2020 because of the pandemic. For the past few years, Southwest Airlines has been building Agile capabilities within their organization to adapt to any challenge thrown their way. Director, Technology at Southwest Airlines.

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Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

Product Talk

The idea was that her trio would test out the concepts from Continuous Discovery Habits and then guide the broader product organization at Going to adopt the habits. But people with children, with school schedules, teachers, they are beholden by budget, calendar, airline preference, or seating preference.”

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

 (I mostly see this proposed by technical leaders who come from non-revenue development organizations – those building software for internal use by companies in another business such as banking or airlines). There’s no rigorous testing.  Unlike

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VR In UX Research: All You Need To Know About VR User Testing

UX Studio

VR in UX research can serve as an individual tool to explore user needs and test complex user experiences. We collected some best practices for those looking to learn more about or just getting started with VR user testing. Applications of VR user testing in retail. Test multiple store layouts in one place with VR.

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

Often times this is a period where you have one channel that kind of works, and you’re testing a few other channels simultaneously. Who wants to buy ads against the same audiences as major credit card or airlines? Your efforts here should be experimental and iterative. Ironically, this is where great products become to dominate.

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

Product Talk

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Tweet This. Lisa Orr understands this all too well.