“Thought provoking content”
and other things
Jonathan Waddingham, senior product manager, JustGiving
August 2017
Consumer trends (and one organisational one)
AR (but not VR)
Data & AI
Transparency
Growth Hacking
Augmented Reality & Virtual
Reality
Virtual Reality
Flickr: vannispen
Augmented Reality
AR is coming in a big way
Facebook AR studio
Apple AR kit
(and Instagram has copied Snapchat filters too)
When a platform opens up, innovation accelerates
https://developers.facebook.com/products/camera-effects/ar-studio/
Facebook AR studio
Aha and Morten H-ARkit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBdRAdSosv4
http://www.madewitharkit.com/
Data & AI
Great Data Produces Revenue
(it helps if you pretend that’s what GDPR means)
Data receipts
Transparency is advisable (and required)
https://twitter.com/cgledhill/status/872392716952494081
Old days – give us yer data
Now - user can choose how much data to share
Putting user in control – My Oxfam app
Artificial Intelligence
Putting user algorithm in control
Could an algorithm come up with a more appropriate
amount?
And learn what content will make you go up or down?
AI – as featured in chatbots
Chatfuel – chatbot platform
https://jonathanwaddingham.com/lessons-from-justhacking-and-building-3-
chatbots-in-28-hours-99ca54db5f86
Machine learning is becoming more accessible
But it’s still not *that* accessible to non-techies
And yet, it powers so much of the tech we all use every day
It takes all of our *big data* and builds models to correlate and predict actions
The flip side of all that data – using data for “bad”
Transparency
GiveDirectly
https://www.givedirectly.org/
GiveDirectly
GD Live
https://live.givedirectly.org/
Watsi
https://watsi.org
Watsi’s transparency doc
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tZq47h6jg7NX4ddhTS_H8JFVfLZiDbxwwdQD47_ow64/edit#gid=842368430
It’s not just charities. But… banks too 😱
https://monzo.com/transparency/
“Transparent by default”
Transparency and the
Blockchain
What’s the blockchain?
http://ordina-jworks.github.io/blockchain/2017/05/10/Blockchain-
Introduction.html
Blockchain & philanthropy - Alice
https://alice.si/
“When each goal is achieved, we will provide
evidence to the rough sleeping commissioning
team at the Greater London Authority who will
independently verify that it’s been achieved.
Once this happens, your donation will be
released by this crowdfunding platform to St
Mungo’s.”
Blockchain & philanthropy - Disberse
http://www.disberse.com/
Opakeco
https://www.opakeco.org
Growth hacking &
organising for growth
*Buzzword klaxon*
Growth hacking is a process of rapid experimentation
across marketing channels and product development to
identify the most effective, efficient ways to grow a
business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_hacking
Growth mindset
It’s about how you work as much as what you do
How we’re organised for growth at JustGiving
Three independent teams – Crowdfunding, Fundraising, Individual Giving
Product Tech Strategy Marketing
Each team is cross-functional and self-organised
Tech lead
Developer Developer
SDET
(QA)
Front end
developer
Marketing
lead
Content SEO
Product
lead
Strategy
lead
Analyst
UX designer
Visual
designer CRM exec PR
Cross functional teams
Flickr: cseward
What does that mean in practice?
Being in control of your own destiny
The ability to set and change priorities
Send a new email | Add content on social | Make changes to the website | Run a report
Access to data adds insight to autonomy
Every day we share:
Total donated
Total pages
Top pages
Month to date
Communication & transparency
Flickr: jonathanharford
Weekly performance review
Top level numbers
Analysis of new features
Marketing channel performance
Daily standups
“What I did yesterday”
“What I will do today”
“Any blockers”
Bi-weekly sprint plans
Development work is cut into smaller chunks
Release early and often
Quarterly roadmap planning sessions
Inclusive process – every part of team involved
Ideas based on business goals
Ideas scored by effort & reward
Roadmap presented back to the team
Open communication channels
I <3 slack
Why does this matter?
Everyone understands the goal, progress vs goal & how their work fits into bigger
picture
More motivated and active participants in work
Success is celebrated as a team
Futurelearn – band vs orchestra metaphor
http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2017/04/band-not-
orchestra-grow-agile-product-team/
“Agile”
Flickr: 65208723@N07
What is agile?
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
http://agilemanifesto.org/
Applying agile-style methodologies to non-agile teams
Regular meetings standups
Open communication channels
Access to data
One clear, shared, goal
Understanding impact
Summary
Consumer trends (and one organisational one)
AR (but not VR)
Data & AI
Transparency
Growth Hacking

Thought provoking content and other things

Editor's Notes

  • #31 We don’t list corporate values on our website and we’ve never had a brand consultancy conduct a workshop to help define our “brand values”. Yet last week, when we asked the Monzo team “what three words would you use to describe Monzo’s values?” as part of a survey for our blog post on diversity, the most frequently cited word (by far) was transparent.
  • #42 Each team has its own management layer responsible for the numbers There’s also a service layer – platform, fintech, but that’s boring
  • #43 The point is to give each team the tools to be successful, and not rely on other teams