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Product Development

Product Development

Radoslav Stankov

May 30, 2023
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  1. Product
    Development
    Radoslav Stankov

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  3. + 15 more years of exp as full stack developer

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  6. Product Development

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  8. I'm going to cover

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  9. Survivorship bias

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  11. Product-market fit is the point at which you have identified the best
    target industries, buyers and use cases for your product.
    Sales become repeatable and scalable.
    ! Product-Market Fit

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  13. MVP
    Minimum Viable Product

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  21. Beware
    • MVP
    • Disruption
    • Ads
    • Moonshot
    • Giving it for free
    • Perfect product
    • What Google, Apple, ... does

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  22. Beware
    • ... going with the hype
    • AI
    • Crypto
    • ...

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  23. Lean
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    Agile
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    Design Sprint
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    [new "]

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

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  29. Collaborative Single Player Mode

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  32. https://blog.rstankov.com/collaborative-single-player-mode/
    Process

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  33. https://blog.rstankov.com/how-i-plan-and-execute-features/
    Feature building

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  35. Planning

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

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  41. Friday Gathering
    (петъчната оперативка)
    • GOAL - keep company in sync and make decisions
    • every Friday afternoon (~2h)
    • required for everybody
    • share company CORE and HEALTH metrics
    • product - shares progress
    • sales - shares progress
    • support - learnings and common requests
    • discussions on major issues
    • what surprises we encountered
    • what are the biggest blockers we are facing
    • sometime brainstorm

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  43. Stories

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  44. Why stories matter?

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  45. Why stories matter?
    • motivation

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  46. Why stories matter?
    • motivation
    • cautionary tale

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  47. Why stories matter?
    • motivation
    • cautionary tale
    • shape culture

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  48. Why stories matter?
    • motivation
    • cautionary tale
    • shape culture
    • ... fun '

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  49. ( Document your history

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  50. Document your history

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  51. Document your history
    • team photos of key events

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  52. Document your history
    • team photos of key events
    • every month gather product screenshots

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  53. Document your history
    • team photos of key events
    • every month gather product screenshots
    • keep list of cool stories to share

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  56. ) Small changes can have big impact

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  60. 80% increase in new sign ups

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  61. * Listen to your users

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  66. + Test before build

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  72. , Don't build until needed

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  78. - Tell your users whats new

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  80. . Learn from your mistakes

    (no blame culture)

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    Das Das /
    to 10K users

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  86. Books

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