Benjamin Scharf

Product Owner for a Fashion eCommerce @tngtech. Talking about Data-Driven Organization, Google Analytics, Online Marketing, POs, GDPR. - alias @nasenpflaster

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

The real "Spotify Model" is to continuously adapt your process and structure as you learn. People who are copying a snapshot of what Spotify was doing 8 years ago, which those ppl call the "Spotify Model," are clueless about how agile companies work.

[Hassan @nutlope]

Time management from a dying professor.

When Randy Pausch, a renowned Computer Science professor, got cancer, he decided to give one last lecture on time management before he died.

These are my top 10 takeaways from his brilliant lecture. 👇

[Virgin Pickle Queen @GorillaaMamaa]

I can’t fucking breathe 😂😂😂😂😂

[Marina Amaral @marinamaral2]

The last known photo ever taken of Franz Reichelt, an Austrian-born French tailor, who is posing here in a parachute of his own design, before jumping off the Eiffel Tower.

[Benjamin Scharf @BenjaminScharf]

@acwagner Confluence mit Concurrent Editing? Bei @tngtech führen wir große Diskussionsrunden und Themen damit durch.
https://t.co/ByZgV1uVas

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

I'm still surprised when dealing with new developers, how quick they are to drop into waterfall - ask for detailed requirements docs, design specs, etc.

I would get it if they were working in the 80s and 90s but when they have less than 10 years of experience?

[Kieran Snyder @KieranSnyder]

1 I’ve sometimes felt that being a CEO is a lot like being a PM, except the product is your company. Maybe if I’d started out in engineering or sales or marketing, I’d think that being a CEO was like those things. But I was a PM.

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[Benjamin Scharf @BenjaminScharf]

Then repeat...

[Benjamin Scharf @BenjaminScharf]

Agile Estimations are, in my opinion, often done for the wrong purpose. No one actually needs a number written on a story. What we need to know are the following:
1. Do we have the same understanding of what we want to achieve and roughly how?

[Benjamin Scharf @BenjaminScharf]

This can be user-related (will they like it? Will they use it) or performance-related (will this work with 1000 users per second)?
Only test one thing at once.

[Natalie Sandman @NatSandman]

@Zoom_us crossed $75B in market cap this week

People often talk about how Zoom won the market bc of it’s simple pricing and high quality, easy to use product

What’s often missing from the discussion is advancements in the underlying tech that enabled this

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[Benjamin Scharf @BenjaminScharf]

@r00k % of features build without talking to a customer.

[Ben Bartlett @bencbartlett]

parent: if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?

machine learning model: yes