article thumbnail

The 20th Anniversary of the Minimum Viable Product: What Happened?

DevelopmentCorporate

Steve Blank expanded on it in 2005 with the Customer Development Methodology. The Minimal Viable Product (MVP) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021. The concept was introduced by Frank Robinson in 2001. In 2011 Eric Reis popularized the MVP concept in his book The Lean Startup.

Agile 97
article thumbnail

How Netflix Built an Innovative Culture by Gibson Biddle

Mind the Product

I started at Netflix in 2005 and in 2010, went to my next startup, Chegg. While most companies add process and rules as they grow, culture helps employees to make great decisions without talking to one another. If executed well, culture is an antidote to talent-sucking, mind-numbing rules and process.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Building Consumer-Grade Experiences for the Enterprise By Ciara Peter

Mind the Product

In the early stages pre-2005 it was a one time sale. How companies approach growth, user experience and engagement can vary depending on their core audience, especially for companies with a similar core product. The way enterprise software is sold has changed over the years. Now software is sold into the life of the business.

article thumbnail

Product Managers Guide to API Developer Portal UX

The Product Coalition

Compass for new product managers for how to build an API developer portal | Photo by Ali Kazal on Unsplash With APIs-as-a-Product on a rocketship since 2005, there are many elements that product managers need to master in their Developer persona user experience (Dx) to win and protect their business.

UX 134
article thumbnail

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. Flash Forward 2005, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Toronto 2008, Canada FITC Toronto 2007, Canada Flash Belt 2007, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2007, Boston, U.S.

article thumbnail

How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession

Nir Eyal

In 2005, as I joined Netflix as VP of Product, I asked Reed Hastings, the CEO, what he hoped his legacy would be. Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Gibson Biddle, former VP at Netflix and CPO at Chegg. Gibson is speaking at the Habit Summit in San Francisco on April 11th. His answer: “Consumer science.” […].

106
106
article thumbnail

In My Humble Opinion by Thor Mitchell

Mind the Product

As Ken Norton wrote in his 2005 article, How to Hire a Product Manager : ‘No one asked you to show up’. This is why… You Are Not All That. As a Product Manager, he says, it’s easy to believe that you are important, but for a variety of reasons you are not. Many organisations, large and small, get along fine without a Product Manager.