A lot of clever engineering, parsing, processing, and weighting of content, activity streams, and social signals fed True/Slant Suggests. We applied this same approach to B2C and B2B products and tools for writers, editors, marketers, sales folks. Choose writers, topics, and news sources to follow: Each selection focuses suggested Contributors: Suggestions were informed by whatever…
Lean Agile @ Hearst
We had an Executive advocate from the outset and aligned on goals early: First priorities focused on assignment desk features for internal teams with public-facing functionality limited to assignment emails and draft assignment responses. We released a core platform in the first four weeks. The next several releases focused on streamlining assignment, review, update, and…
Lean Agile @ True/Slant
T/S had a core team of three, a concept, and initial funding when I joined. I brought detailed plans for the tech stack and approach to launch, learn and iterate rapidly. We released a live service from the concept deck in the first month. By month 3, we had anchor editorial talent and a dozen…
Eisenhower Decision Matrix
Focus on the Urgent and Important. Manage workflows toward Important and Not Urgent.