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Last week, we had an opportunity to host a webinar featuring Bill Hinderman, the Experimentation Engineering Lead at Vivid Seats. During the hour long webinar, Bill covered everything from his own experience with experimentation to the Optimizely Full Stack implementation at Vivid Seats, and he even dropped in some fun analogies along the way. There […]
We’re excited to announce our very first blog series, written by Jon Noronha, the Director of Product Management at Optimizely. Hot on the heels of the release of Feature Management, we’re launching a 5-part blog series, using stories, research, and data to help you avoid common product development experimentation pitfalls. Whether your team has experiments […]
Market competition is intensifying, and customer expectations continue to rise. Staying in business requires addressing them both. Fortunately, by adding experimentation to your development process, and discovering how it complements initiatives like Agile, your team can learn to innovate rapidly and deliver a better customer experience. The Role of Experimentation The days of completing development […]
If you’ve ever had to forecast a deadline for a software project, you’ll be all too familiar with Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. So it’s no surprise that every product development team wants to be more “agile.” To the naive CTO, “agile” is just […]
With 2018 just around the corner, your company will likely be exploring new channels to reach out to your customers. Before you rush off to start a podcasting channel, create video ads, or rebuild your mobile app from scratch, take a moment to consider improving your company’s mobile text messaging (SMS) channel. Around 80% of […]
Why this approach? Experiments using Optimizely X’s Full Stack SDKs are typically implemented by using conditionals in your codebase to decide between feature variations. As experiments progress and clear winners from experimentation emerge this conditional code can create technical debt, once competing variations are no longer needed. This method also creates dependencies between the […]
Many of us look at top software companies and ask, “how can my company make decisions like Facebook, Amazon, Google, or Netflix?” Teams at these companies have implemented world-class technology platforms to enable every engineer, product manager, and data scientist to make decisions fueled by experimentation and backed by rigorous statistical analysis. But making experimentation […]
Last week, we hosted a developer meetup at Optimizely NYC with engineers, product managers, and analysts from the New York area. Folks braved the rain to hear from John Cline, Engineering Lead – Growth at Blue Apron speak about their experimentation program. John’s talk covered how Blue Apron overcame the challenge of setting up […]
Last week, we hosted our first ever Developer Night at Opticon. Over 100 developers, product managers, and analysts showed up for a great evening of tacos, drinks, and lightning talks. Below are the top five lessons from Developer Night: #1: How to Integrate a Messenger Bot with Optimizely X Full Stack We kicked the night […]
This post originally appeared on the Upside Travel Engineering Blog. Upside is the first online travel service built just for business travelers, particularly travelers from small and mid-sized companies that can’t access special pricing or quality customer service. We embrace the “Move Fast and Break Things” culture found at the big tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google. […]
