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Product Strategy as a System

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Like any system, it is a collection of interconnecting parts that function as a whole. If so, what are they?

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System Thinking for Product Managers by Johanna Kollmann

Mind the Product

In one of the keynotes of this year’s MTP Engage Hamburg, Johanna Kollmann reviews established system thinking concepts and applies them to the world of today’s product management. Practical Ways of Understanding Systems. As soon as a system is understood, we can try to change or improve it. Systematic Improvement.

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Decoding Amazon’s Working Backwards Process [Book Review]

NextBigWhat

How does one explain Prime music and video – all in the name of building more consumer loyalty? A common question asked by executives when reviewing the product features in the PR is “so what?” Before you can improve any system. you must understand how the inputs affect the outputs of the system. On Output Metrics.

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Mechanism of change: Getting more from your incident reviews

Intercom, Inc.

As a result, you’ll find no shortage of articles telling you how to write a review – or as they’re commonly known, a post mortem – of your incident. In the past, we asked a set of five questions during incident reviews at Intercom: Do we know what happened? What could our systems do better? Focus on the details.

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Standing together: How Intercom customers are providing relief during COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

From empowering teachers who need to move their classrooms online to providing free, safe transportation to healthcare workers to helping doctors remotely monitor their patients’ systems, these companies are doing amazing things. Many medical offices and hospitals are extremely crowded due to COVID-19.

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Why 36% is the magic number: Finding the right amount of text in mobile apps

Intercom, Inc.

“Social media apps reserve most of their interfaces to share personal video or images instead of text” On the other hand, social media apps – especially Snapchat (3.5%), TikTok (16.5%), and Instagram (20%) – reserve most of their interfaces to share personal video or images instead of text. Fitness: (Fitbit, Strava) 35.3%.

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Test-Driven or Feature Flag-Driven Development: What’s Best For Your Team?

Split

Amid this incessant search for perfection, two paradigms have become prominent: Test-driven development (TDD) and feature flag-driven development (FFDD). Test-driven development (TDD), a software development approach in which tests are written before the code, is akin to building a safety net before performing a daring tightrope act.