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Learning British Sign Language: A Meaningful Gesture

Learning British Sign Language: A Meaningful Gesture

Working Towards a More Inclusive Workplace
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Andy Gout
Aug 28
Nikkei Engine Room 3 — Collaboration Fuels Innovation

Nikkei Engine Room 3 — Collaboration Fuels Innovation

Observations from my recent trip to Tokyo to visit colleagues in Nikkei Technology
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Dewi Rees
Aug 22
Article Vectorisation Reloaded

Article Vectorisation Reloaded

A new dawn for the vectorisation of articles at the Financial Times (FT)
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Emma Mani
Jun 19
codebar and FT go gold!

codebar and FT go gold!

A short note to explain why FT have decided to sponsor codebar
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Muj
Feb 6
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
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