The shipyard

We ship early. We ship often.

Guillaume Simon in The shipyard

Oct 26, 2015

The Gyro Gearloose syndrom

Product managers who don’t know how to say no will suffer the Gyro Gearloose syndrom : they will always come up…

Roman from Onboarding.Pro in The shipyard

Aug 5, 2015

Why user onboarding is an art of first impressions

Much like a book is judged by its cover, your users often judge your web application by its landing page. User onboarding (or lack of it) is like reading first few pages. There are books that draw you in from the very first page and there are…

Thomas Schranz in Product Love ❤

Apr 4, 2014

On Deadlines & Death Marches in Software Projects

Why Managing Scope using Deadlines is dangerous and…

We Don’t Sell Saddles Here

The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack, on July 31st, 2013. It had been a little under seven months since development began and was two weeks before the launch of Slack’s ‘Preview Release’. It is presented verbatim, as written (including original…

91 responses