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Design Sprints by Jake Knapp

Mind the Product

Unfortunately, their strategy was not translated to the marketing of the product and it totally underrepresented the advances they had made – due to a lack of communication between the design, development and marketing teams. They were sure it would convince people to choose their premium product over the free Wikipedia.

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When You Need an Interim CFO vs. a Part-time CFO

The Product Coalition

As you grow, you may hire a bookkeeper to perform some of these functions, but a part-time CFO can set up your account systems, begin tracking your financial activity, and provide you with reports and insights on your company’s performance.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

I went from most of my day being watching other people do things, being in meetings and reviews and so on, to all of a sudden writing specs, doing designs and trying to figure out what the product was. Google uses a system for goal-setting called OKRs. Because it was our system, we could be nimble in how we planned.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

From about 2003-2009, Scrum worked for many of my clients. This idea of “done” requires technical excellence in the form of completed technical work: Automated unit, functional, system tests. Some way to review the code and tests. Or, you can use any of the test-first ideas: BDD, TDD, ATDD.

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What we’ve learnt from 3000 bug reports

The Product Coalition

2/3 of bugs are reported on pre-production environments According to a 2009 study by Capers Jones , 85% of bugs are caught before the code gets to production. could be due to the sample, though. More bug reports were made using this operating system, than Windows and Linux combined. Is that the case today? And here it is?—?the

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. has exorbitant technical costs with maintenance example: Twitch tipping streamers through a system of “cheering” called Bits. Mixpanel achieved its initial market traction and first wave of hyper-growth as a product analytics tool, starting in 2009.

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Top 10 UX Agencies For Your Project

The Product Coalition

Purrweb Key facts: The main office is based in Omsk, Russia; The company was founded in 2014; Team size is 60 people; The company has proven itself in various fields of expertise, including healthcare, logistics, real estate, sports and finance; 5-star reviews on Clutch.co, GoodFirms.co It is proven to be an effective system.

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