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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

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It’s a great example of how product features can drive organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. movies, songs, products, profiles, etc.). For inventory-driven sites, the website is a big part of the product. I call the later type “inventory driven.”.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy. decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Do you have a spec?

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

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I can send you more links to more information about our product if needed.” In the past, we’ve assumed that potential customers would always arrive at our website after Googling a specific search term, and we’d make them “aware” of a problem and how our product solves this problem. Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term.

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The Hard Life of an Optimizer – Yuan Wright [Video]

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It touches product owners, touches UI, developers, QA, you name it. Does that sit into the Agile scrum team? Are they bearing the scrum, bearing the team or everywhere. It would bear a lot of the AB testing expertise into the scrum team, so you can innovate. I talked about the tools. I talked about the process.

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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

They should freely share learnings and don’t compete with each other, meaning they effectively act like small, independent start-ups within a larger framework. Each game team is led by a product lead that has the final decision for the team. All KPIs and metrics are available to everyone in the company. Knowledge sharing.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development.