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What methodologies do you employ to optimize mature products for performance, cost, and efficiency?

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  1. Aaron Bloom
    Aaron Bloom

    Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 4mo

    Optimizing a mature product differs from a nascent one in a few common ways: Small tweaks can drive outsized benefits or large scale damage. Years of iteration create far more complexity, dependencies, and edge cases. Bugs and confusion get amplified across a large customer base and a business that now depends on the product financially. From an optics perspective, the customer and business are just used to the product being stable - issues have higher damage to years of trust.  Use your proven ...Read More

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  2. Laurent Gibert
    Laurent Gibert

    Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y

    If you haven’t already, it’s helpful to start with the context in “How do you define a mature product?” I’ve touched on optimization in “How do you know when a new feature or an update has been successful?” Here, I’ll focus specifically on cost and efficiency. In mature products, technical and design debt are pervasive. They often drive high maintenance costs and are frequently cited as the primary blockers to renewed growth. The common reaction is to push for a complete overhaul: a Version 2.0, ...Read More

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