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Graham McNicollIt's really hard when you really believed in feature, you managed to get it prioritized, ytext_videothought_leadership2026-08-13—920
Graham McNicollFrom my experience, experimentation programs don't get killed off in a meeting because peotext_videothought_leadership2026-08-11—810
Graham McNicollWe make it stupidly easy to run experiments. Whether you're a back-end engineer, a front-etext_videoproduct_announcement2026-08-06—801
Graham McNicollToken costs are exploding across our industry. Here's how we approach it. I definitely betext_videothought_leadership2026-08-04—920
Graham McNicollOne of the things we tell a lot of our customers is that it's the number of at-bats that wtext_videothought_leadership2026-07-29—720
Graham McNicollTeams have no shortage of ideas, but implementing them is where teams hit roadblocks. Stext_videoproduct_announcement2026-07-22—2571
Graham McNicollMost companies ship the first version of the product they build. And the chance that's thetext_videothought_leadership2026-07-16—1740
Graham McNicollThere's a level of excitement teams get when the product just works and they're not fightitext_videothought_leadership2026-07-15—820
Graham McNicollMost product teams build features the expensive way. Someone has the idea. The team spectext_videothought_leadership2026-07-09—520
Graham McNicollPMs ship experiment winners too early. A metric moves 3%, the test gets called, and the text_videothought_leadership2026-07-07—1510
Graham McNicollCS degree enrollment is dropping, and I do not blame the students. If I were eighteen ritext_videothought_leadership2026-07-025311040
Graham McNicollOne very large financial company, a name you would recognize, told me they were doing expetext_videothought_leadership2026-06-305591731
Graham McNicollTeams routinely misunderstand averages in experimentation and what those averages are hiditext_videothought_leadership2026-06-255971321
Graham McNicollI see experimentation leads run two or three tests a month and feel like they have figuredtext_videothought_leadership2026-06-23389810
Graham McNicollI have been a software engineer long enough to have the grey hairs to show for it. Monoltext_videothought_leadership2026-06-189182130
Graham McNicollKilling a feature you spent months (or years) building is one of the hardest calls in prodtext_videothought_leadership2026-06-163361551
Graham McNicollEvery experimentation leader eventually runs into the result nobody expected. A counteritext_videothought_leadership2026-06-113571000
Graham McNicollMost engineering teams using feature flags treat them as circuit breakers. Something goes text_videothought_leadership2026-06-093271210
Graham McNicollI spoke to an engineering manager last week whose team still tracks sprint progress in stotext_videothought_leadership2026-06-034641210
Graham McNicollAmazon just held a mandatory meeting after vibe-coded changes caused multiple major outagetext_videoindustry_commentary2026-05-265902370
Graham McNicollMost product teams I talk to struggle to analyze the true impact of any feature they ship,text_videothought_leadership2026-05-20309900
Graham McNicollMost engineering teams I talk to are still shipping every feature directly to production. text_videothought_leadership2026-05-131,3432021
Graham McNicollMost product teams spec out the entire feature before they've shipped a single line of codtext_videothought_leadership2026-05-062,2441820
Graham McNicollA bug in our codebase accidentally set our paywall to zero. As a side effect, revenue jumptext_videothought_leadership2026-05-011,0521000
Graham McNicollAI coding tools are genuinely impressive. And this is literally the worst they will ever btext_videothought_leadership2026-04-296,3232210
Graham McNicollWe spent three years building our own experimentation platform at education.com. Then we ftext_videothought_leadership2026-04-231,7272502
Graham McNicollIf you use 3rd party vendor, you are betting your infrastructure on someone else's board mtext_videothought_leadership2026-04-221,1231430
Graham McNicollIt's entirely possible to run a test, see it win, ship the feature, and still damage your text_videothought_leadership2026-04-179521320
Graham McNicollStartup life is mostly reactive. You're in the task, in the Slack thread, in the meeting. text_videocompany_personal2026-04-159341930
Graham McNicollI see so many software teams launch massive features without actually defining what succestext_videothought_leadership2026-04-147411100
Graham McNicollEngineer's who ship products without measuring them are making a big mistake. If you arentext_videothought_leadership2026-04-082881500
Graham McNicollI've watched design teams spend months on an interface that looked great, and was based ontext_videothought_leadership2026-04-011692221
Graham McNicollIn many companies, the projects we work on are the ones backed by the person who speaks thtext_videothought_leadership2026-03-263122841
Graham McNicollThe most important transition for a product team is learning how to be ruthless with ideastext_videothought_leadership2026-03-241,3332840
Graham McNicollJudging a product team solely on their ability to ship is a bad metric that rewards activitext_videothought_leadership2026-03-189243510
Graham McNicollI know it sounds controversial, but I advocate for burning your backlog at the end of evertext_videothought_leadership2026-03-121,7955670
Graham McNicollIn baseball terms, the industry standard for any new product success is batting 200- and htext_videothought_leadership2026-03-101,4524910