- LukeW | An Event Apart: Prototyping The Scientific Method of Business
Quote: "Design done right can be the scientific method for business. People within a company have lots of ideas and often talk past each other. Designers can take these ideas, give them shape as prototypes, and allow the company to learn from them."
(categories: design business hypothesis ) - About Amazon – 2016 Letter to Shareholders
I’d pay money to read a book about Amazon’s customer obsession as described here. Quote: "Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight. A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen."
(categories: amazon business culture process customerfocus day1 ) - How We Reorganized Instagram’s Engineering Team While Quadrupling Its Size
Quote: "We picked our top five outcomes, which became our organizational principles: Minimize dependencies between teams and code Have clear accountability with the fewest decision makers Groups have clear measures Top-level organizations have roadmaps Performance, stability, and code quality have owners"
(categories: engineering management instagram growth )