Which companies have the best product management or UX design practices?
Here are some companies and posts that show product and product management thinking that is exemplary of various aspects of product development. I’m biased by what people have shared publicly about company culture and product development. I’ll add more as they come to mind.
- Facebook / Relationships Between Product Disciplines, e.g. How to Work with Engineers
- Spotify / Scaling Agile: Here’s How Spotify Scales Up And Stays Agile: It Runs ‘Squads’ Like Lean Startups
- Etsy / Product Experimentation and A/B Tests: Design for Continuous Experimentation: Talk and Slides, Why did infinite scroll fail at Etsy? – danwin.com
- Medium / Ensuring Non-Urgent, Important Goals Get Done – To Do to Done: Jank ‘n’ Drank
Certainly, there are other companies that excel in PM / design practices. I’ll add those as they come up.
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