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Ramon Harrington of Vistaprint on Choosing What Not To Build
Engineering Culture by InfoQ
English - January 02, 2018 00:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ramon Harrington of Vistaprint about his QCon New York talk on Rapid Prototyping.
Why listen to this podcast:
• Putting engineers in front of customers and having conversations results in far better understanding and empathy for the customer’s needs
• Be prepared to launch before you’ve built everything you think the product needs in order to avoid building features people don’t want
• In engineering there is often a “right” answer, in product identification there isn’t – you don’t know until you try it out
• Launching early with a reduced feature set can result in more engaged customers because their important problems are addressed first, and the product will be improved incrementally
• Sometimes the software that you don’t write is more important than the software that you do write
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