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codebar and FT go gold!
codebar and FT go gold!
A short note to explain why FT have decided to sponsor codebar
Dewi Rees
May 18
6 Lessons learned from introducing self-serve analytics into the Financial Times
6 Lessons learned from introducing self-serve analytics into the Financial Times
To enable fast and effective data-led decision-making, the FT has been undergoing a journey to extract better value and competitive…
Vaithegi Vasanthakumar
May 15
100k downloads later — 8 things I learnt from launching FT Edit
100k downloads later — 8 things I learnt from launching FT Edit
There are plenty of brilliant articles covering methodologies for launching new products. Even ChatGPT will give you a comprehensive list…
Dilyana Evtimova
Mar 16
From Onboarding to Impact: A Group Product Manager’s Journey starting at the FT
From Onboarding to Impact: A Group Product Manager’s Journey starting at the FT
Hi 👋, I’m Muj! I’ve recently joined the FT to embark on a new journey of improving the world of high quality news.
Muj
Feb 6
Overcoming ambiguity in product
Overcoming ambiguity in product
What to do when you don’t even know where to begin
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
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…
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…
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
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.
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
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.
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
Emilio de la Torre
Nov 29, 2022
Nurturing talent
Nurturing talent
Firstly, everybody is talented.
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
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
Carina Huse
Nov 1, 2022
Filling the product strategy gap
Filling the product strategy gap
By Debbie McMahon, Product Director FT.com & Apps
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
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Martin Fallon
Jan 18, 2022
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