Jake Bennett
@jakebenn
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Practice Area Lead at @Slalom. Formerly CTO at @POP_Agency. Obsessed with using customer data, #CDP's, MarTech and cloud architecture to drive revenue growth.
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Joined January 2009
You're a leader. You're killer at execution. You need your team to be the same. Hereās a framework for building a culture of rigorous thinking:
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š§ Troubleshooting your #AWS #CloudFormation stacks just got easier š§ You can now disable automatic rollback, keep successfully provisioned resources, and retry stack operations!
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Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS CloudFormation introduces the option to troubleshoot provisioning errors before rollback, accelerating deployments
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Razors are rules that simplify decisions. THREAD: 20+ powerful razors (to help you cut through lifeās noise):
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Some paradoxes of modern life: 1. The paradox of reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though youāll forget the vast majority of what you read.
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Whatās a no-brainer marketing tactic for any brand thatās often overlooked?
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Friday thread on email and how I get to Inbox Zero almost everyday. On ave, I receive 200-300 emails per day. Here's how I process mine. >>
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My co-founder Chandra Narayanan's quote has become something of a product-builder's mantra for us: Diagnose with data and treat with design. There is so much packed into those sentences! Thread going deeper š (1/15)
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āWe donāt write PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) as thatās too waterfall. Weāre more agile than that.ā My experience tells otherwise: youāll prob lose a lot of time later. A good PRD answers a few, but critical questions. Hereās how short it can be at Airbnb (via @lennysan )
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Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer! We're excited to announce a birthday of our own: our #WomenInTech group, Slalom WIT, turns 1 today! To help us #CelebrateAuthenticity, we asked some of our founding WIT leads what being a woman in tech means to them.
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Growth hacking aināt just for startups anymore. Given its tremendous success, itās time for enterprises to get onboard. The right tools like @Amplitude_HQ make this much easier.
"The growth hacker mindset, combined with the right tools and practices, offers a blueprint for enterprise companies to realize digital transformation and unlock growth." @Slalom's @jakebenn covers how #growthhackers understand customers with data. https://t.co/h7F0OvO3wJ
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This is too true. Persistence conquers the pit of despair that inevitably accompanies big evolutions.
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My 10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews https://t.co/STnfEu2iXA
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Join me today as I discuss the next evolution in product analytics with Amplitude: Using #MachineLearning to automatically identify paths in the customer journey that either accelerate or hinder the customer experience. @SlalomSeattle @Amplitude_HQ
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Sign up to learn from Amplitude's Product Team about how Journeys can accelerate conversion by uncovering all possible paths between two points in a product.
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Big news in the #MarTech space. A mash up of two great companies, @twilio and @Segment. Things are about to get about to get interesting.
Cloud communications business Twilio has agreed to acquire customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2 billion https://t.co/Uzt6l9CHot by @alexrkonrad
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Yet another soul-destroying discussion of whether to call what we do UX, CX, SD, UI, IxD, PD. OMG FFS PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. 1
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Hey! We're looking for volunteers to conduct mock technical interviews for folks looking for their first eng role. The participants are primarily career-changers, non-traditionally educated (bootcampers or self-taught), and underrepresented in the industry. Signal boost, please!
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Increasing your retention rate is like hosting a great party: 1. Invite the right people 2. Welcome them thoughtfully 3. Make sure they have a great time 4. Catch them before they bail 5. If they leave, show them what they're missing
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