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A blog by the Financial Times Product & Technology department.

Overcoming ambiguity in product

Overcoming ambiguity in product

What to do when you don’t even know where to begin
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Martin Fallon
Jan 26
FTs Engine Room: now we are 8!

FTs Engine Room: now we are 8!

Behind the scenes at the FT’s annual internal technology conference
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Dewi Rees
Jan 24
5 reasons why audio articles are great for driving user engagement

5 reasons why audio articles are great for driving user engagement

With increasing demand for audio from our users, the Apps team at the Financial Times (FT) has been working on improving the listening…
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Carina Huse
Jan 11
The Pragmatic Programmer book club finale

The Pragmatic Programmer book club finale

Back in August I wrote that we had started a book club to meet more of my colleagues and we that were going to read the 20th Anniversary…
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Alice Bartlett
Jan 4
Enabling connections in a hybrid world

Enabling connections in a hybrid world

The challenges and benefits of running internal tech conferences in a hybrid-working fashion
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Chel Kandhasamy
Dec 15, 2022
What next for No next Next?

What next for No next Next?

What the Customer Products tech strategy helped us achieve and what we’ll do next.
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Anna Shipman
Dec 12, 2022
Read All About It: Rebuilding the FT.com newsletters page

Read All About It: Rebuilding the FT.com newsletters page

Early Edition
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Maggie Allen
Dec 7, 2022
Unspaghettiing FT.com’s Content Pipeline

Unspaghettiing FT.com’s Content Pipeline

How our article content pipeline grew out of control, and what we did to fix it.
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Kara Brightwell
Dec 2, 2022
Thinking through our changes with Design Documents

Thinking through our changes with Design Documents

How we use Design Documents in FT’s Customer Products to make our work visible across a multi-team group
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Emilio de la Torre
Nov 29, 2022
Nurturing talent

Nurturing talent

Firstly, everybody is talented.
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Matthew Sawyer
Nov 23, 2022
Operational excellence: one year on

Operational excellence: one year on

What we’ve learned from a year of focusing on reliability
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Rowan Manning
Nov 4, 2022
How we used FOMO to increase our retention rate by 31%

How we used FOMO to increase our retention rate by 31%

5 learnings from using FOMO to save users from cancelling their subscriptions
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Carina Huse
Nov 1, 2022
Filling the product strategy gap

Filling the product strategy gap

By Debbie McMahon, Product Director FT.com & Apps
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Debbie McMahon
Oct 24, 2022
Replatforming the Lantern API

Replatforming the Lantern API

How and why we changed the data source for FT newsroom analytics tools
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Sal Dixon
Sep 19, 2022
A physicist’s holiday to the tech world.

A physicist’s holiday to the tech world.

Documenting my internship experience at the FT.
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Louis Jackson
Aug 25, 2022
Book Club: The pragmatic programmer

Book Club: The pragmatic programmer

A convergence of problems has led me to start an engineering book club at the FT. I think it’s a pretty good idea (bing bong, unexpected…
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Alice Bartlett
Aug 3, 2022
What is the role of a research professional in a research-fatigued world?

What is the role of a research professional in a research-fatigued world?

For a long time, surveys have been a primary tool used by researchers to gather data. However, now that almost every service provider you…
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Michael Hoole
Jul 20, 2022
Being a Principal Engineer in Customer Products at the FT

Being a Principal Engineer in Customer Products at the FT

At the FT we have a role called Principal Engineer. Many companies do; however, the shape of the role at the FT is different than it is at…
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Anna Shipman
Jun 27, 2022
How taking a ‘Personal Away Day’ can boost your career development

How taking a ‘Personal Away Day’ can boost your career development

When my manager asked me ‘how do you want to develop in your role?’ I kept putting off having a good answer: I never seem to have the time…
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Amanda Gordon
May 25, 2022
Establishing the FT Product Design and Research Team Values

Establishing the FT Product Design and Research Team Values

The product research and design team at FT has grown rapidly within the last year with a number of new designers and researchers joining…
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Natasha Kellman
Feb 14, 2022
How technology can help you maximise a competitive advantage

How technology can help you maximise a competitive advantage

It is said that for a company to be successful, it needs a competitive advantage, but what is it and how do you exploit it using…
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Martin Fallon
Jan 18, 2022
A new homepage for FT readers

A new homepage for FT readers

A product overview of how we tackled this high-profile project
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Anna Lisinski
Nov 30, 2021
Why Product Managers should learn to write code

Why Product Managers should learn to write code

and how this will make you a better PM
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Daniel Fish
Nov 26, 2021
Increasing the representation of women in FT journalism

Increasing the representation of women in FT journalism

How we’re using NLP to track the gender ratio of sources
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Stephanie Gabrielle Pieri
Nov 16, 2021
Product Discovery from an Engineer’s Point of View

Product Discovery from an Engineer’s Point of View

The risks that did and didn’t pay off when building “throw away” prototypes
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Charlotte Payne
Oct 27, 2021
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