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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

View from Seed

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Having The Right It is essential for the following reason: Most new products and innovations fail in the market.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Small batches mean faster feedback.

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part One)

OnlyOnce

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. It was stressful, but productively stressful and fun. A good example of this is our recent Domain Assurance product, our first product to address phishing and spoofing. It didn’t work.