Product Development

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1. Product
   Development
   Radoslav Stankov 26/11/2018
   

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2. • Context
   • Process
   • Stories
   • Tools
   Agenda for Today
   

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6. How it all started
   

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7. An Idea
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8. Funding
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10. Product Hunt + AngelList
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12. ~150
    product launches per day are
    featured at Product Hunt
    

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20. Golden Kitty 2018
    Post submission flow
    Redesign for homepage
    Jobs 2.0
    Makers Fest
    Launch Today
    API 2.0 GraphQL
    Founder Club
    Badges
    Stories
    Browser Extension 2.0
    Promoted Post
    Comment polls
    Discussion boards
    Notification Center
    SEO optimizations
    Mobile web facelift
    Speed improvements
    Post reviews 2.0
    Makers Feed
    Makers Virtual Coworking
    Improved spam detection
    Your Stacks
    

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21. Golden Kitty 2018
    Post submission flow
    Redesign for homepage
    Jobs 2.0
    Makers Fest
    Launch Today
    API 2.0 GraphQL
    Founder Club
    Badges
    Stories
    Browser Extension 2.0
    Promoted Post
    Comment polls
    Discussion boards
    Notification Center
    SEO optimizations
    Mobile web facelift
    Speed improvements
    Post reviews 2.0
    Makers Feed
    Makers Virtual Coworking
    Improved spam detection
    Your Stacks
    Project launches 2019
    

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26. image credit: remotehub.io
    

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27. Process
    

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29. “Process is automatic decisions for trivial
    questions and framework for making decisions
    for all other questions.”
    - Rado
    What is process
    

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30. Single Player Mode
    

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33. Project A
    Project B
    Project C
    Project D
    Projects
    
    
    
    
    

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34. Project Iteration Delivery Retro
    

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35. Project Iteration Delivery Retro
    

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36. Project
    scope

    target metric

    ⏳ timeline (optional, 2-4 weeks usually)

    developer

    designer

    community member

    weekly meetings

    Slack channel
    

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38. Project Iteration Delivery Retro
    

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39. Task Planning
    ⚽ focus first on what won’t change
    know what "ready" means
    what should I do today?
    ⚾ retrospectives
    

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40. All hands meeting
    • GOAL - keep company in sync
    • every Monday
    • require for everybody
    • share company CORE metrics
    • mention any HEALTH metrics weirdness
    • project status updates and demos
    

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41. Project meeting
    • can be skipped
    • avoid status updates, use Slack for this
    • before meeting - publish the agenda
    • agenda is items to discuss/decide
    • follow the agenda
    • after meeting list action items with responsible
    party
    

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44. Happy Friday
    Fix bugs
    Goodies features
    Pay technical depth
    Catchup on projects
    

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45. Project Iteration Delivery Retro
    

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50. Feature switches
    

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51. OFF
    ON
    User
    Feature switches
    Check
    

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53. 1 week 2 week 3 week ...
    developer admins beta everybody
    

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54. Project Iteration Delivery Retro
    

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55. Retrospective
    • did we achieve our goal?
    • what did we learn?
    • how should we improve?
    

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57. Stories
    

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58. Why stories matter?
    • Motivation
    • Cautionary tale
    • Shape culture
    • ... fun
    

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59. Listen to your community
    

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61. Build in the open
    

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65. Test before build
    

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69. Don't build until needed
    

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72. Learn from your mistakes

    (no blame culture)
    

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75. 
    Tuesday → Thursday
    

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78. Tools
    

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79. Github

    Slack

    Trello

    Invision

    Quip

    Google Docs

    Periscope

    Zoom

    1Password
    Tools we use
    

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81. Slack Channels
    - weekly-updates
    - changelog
    - feedback
    - project-[...]
    - [team]
    

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82. Github

    Slack

    Trello

    Invision

    Quip

    Google Docs

    Periscope

    Zoom

    1Password
    Tools we use
    

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84. https://trello.com/b/zDemw5sd/example-board
    

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91. Github

    Slack

    Trello

    Invision

    Quip

    Google Docs

    Periscope

    Zoom

    1Password
    Tools we use
    

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