JAM London 2019
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Rocking The World of Product! | 02m | |
A compact report of JAM London 2019 claims a cross-discipline product festival that deliberately mixes design, engineering and product roles and centers on… | ||
| Why agile is for everybody, and why everybody hates agile. | Matt LeMay | 29m |
Argues that Agile has no single definition and traces it to the 68-word manifesto, then shows concrete experiments: replace daily stand‑ups with a Slack… | ||
| A story about Stories: How user research inspires new products at Instagram. | Jamie Nicholson | 20m |
Describes using early generative research—interviews with teens and extreme users—to reframe the problem from “get people to post more” to how people make… | ||
| Terms of Engagement: Research as a Team Sport. | Chelsea Bullock | 19m |
Team research succeeds or fails on concrete trust practices: a high‑trust crew at IBM runs experiments, concludes a VP’s feature won’t meet user needs and… | ||
| How to measure user retention? | Ilya Blokh | 07m |
Blinkist adds a free trial and sees a 50% conversion lift, but retention drops dramatically. Engineering builds tracking for time spent on content as a North… | ||
| How to scale your product globally. | Kaarel Kuddu | 21m |
Starts by testing World Bank route volumes and finds World Bank data failed — launches expecting billions return thousands. Builds a customer wishes feature… | ||
| How to keep pace in an over 100-year-old organisation. | Sabrina Rzepka | 22m |
A product manager at a century‑old carmaker prototypes an in‑car commerce flow where voice prompts let drivers say “yes” and a feature activates with… | ||
| You didn't fail, your product did. | Susana Lopes | 22m |
Early-career work ships a timing-out feature that users hate, and a built-from-scratch Android app that only one customer uses; later products hit 10x… | ||
| Building with stories. | Jeff Gardner | 18m |
Claims that stories are the fastest way to align teams and drive behavior, backed by a simple checklist: story fitness = clear point, emotional hook… | ||
| Failure...what we don’t talk enough about. | Maryam (maz) Mazraei | 13m |
Autopsy builds a public database of failed startups (it gets viral traction — ~100,000 page views in four days) and now holds 2000 failure submissions and… | ||
| Build from scratch for massive scaling. | Isabel Richards | 05m |
Ocado builds the Ocado Smart Platform from scratch and bridges the chicken‑and‑egg problem by running an internal retailer that starts with vending-machine… | ||
| Role of product in AI. | Graham Paterson | 07m |
Describes how Catapult matches part‑time staff with employers and how Deliveroo’s logistics AI assigned riders to orders, and gives concrete product steps… | ||
| Growing at work: the importance of progression. | Jonny Burch | 23m |
Companies rely on bulky spreadsheets to describe career levels so teams stop leaving; eighteen months of research finds 82% open to new jobs and 27% will leave… | ||
| How to take control of your product career. | Jane Honey, Bob Vickers, Graham Paterson | 27m |
Three product leaders trace concrete career moves: a transition from receptionist into product by building an app, choosing roles with clear parameters… | ||
| Building universes that sing in tandem. | Payal Wadhwa | 25m |
🌍 What is the future of our planet and how is this related to product design? Break the chains of clickbait & make sure your product reflects your… | ||
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