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Customers value Results, not Tools

Folding Burritos

Daniel Zacarias (@listentodaniel) April 28, 2015. This focus on results has been described by many different names: It’s the pain we’re solving. This tweet’s popularity is proof to me that this is a common feeling: Product Managers: let’s keep our role in perspective #prodmgmt pic.twitter.com/KoQ2ErikdJ.

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The Product Roadmap and the Release Plan

Roman Pichler

As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on the goals the upcoming releases should provide. The first row captures the date or the time frame when a new product release should be available—for example, 1 March 2015, or first quarter 2015. The second row states the name of the release like iOS 9.3

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

And for that, we needed a new name… Output of one naming brainstorm. After a lot of deliberation we settled on the name Yimby, which stood for “yes in my backyard”. 2015 – Launch as JustGiving Crowdfunding. The fundraising “interstitial”, where you could choose how to raise money, in 2015.

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The evolution of Ember at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

This is a slide from a talk that I gave in 2015. I gave a talk in 2015 in our old offices when we were still running Ember 1. Here is a model, it’s just a class with three properties that we want to track – first name, last name, and the person’s birth year. There are no new features in major releases.

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Emojis mean business: The characters transforming business messaging

Intercom, Inc.

Back in 2015 or 2016, I was studying in London, doing a master’s degree in business psychology. But by the time Oxford Dictionaries named the face with tears of joy emoji its 2015 word of the year, it was clear they were here to stay. You’re keeping the flag flying for 2015’s party popper.

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Paul Adams on avoiding over-corrections and finding balance when problem-solving

Intercom, Inc.

At the end of 2015, we shipped over 100 things. In 2015, small things. So we gave the project a name. I’m even embarrassed telling you what this name was. The name was “Project Awesome.”. This is a terrible name and a terrible idea. That was the source of my pride. In 2016, big things. It was terrible.

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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Lenny Rachitsky

He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. Periscope pioneered technology that inspired Instagram Live, TikTok Live, Facebook Live, and other social networks’ expansion into video streaming. .