At Red Badger our delivery teams often use a North Star metric to guide the way through product delivery. A good North Star tells you if the direction of travel your product teams are taking is having a positive or negative impact on your customers.
One metric that most eCommerce Product Owners look at is conversion rate. This is usually the number of orders in a day divided by the number of site visits. We trend this metric, we compare it week-on-week and year-on-year and we optimise our…
Istio recently released version 1.5, and one of the major changes in it is the deprecation of Mixer in favour of WebAssembly Envoy filters. If none of that sentence made sense to you, but you want to extend Istio or Envoy with custom behaviour, …
Happy April Fool’s! Here at Red Badger, we spend our days creating and building transformative digital products for all kinds of consumer problems - that’s not a joke. With our playful spirit in mind, we thought we’d create a list of 12 of our top…
Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) can be defined as the average time elapsed between an incident…
We’re excited to announce that we’re now a Disability Confident Committed employer. Accessibility and inclusion are really important to us, and in the future, we want to be sure that we are doing our best to support people living with disabilities…
Recently, I took a course in DSDM, an agile project delivery framework. Whether you’ve taken the course yourself, or if you’re thinking about booking it, here are some of my thoughts after having completed my training.
There’s much to celebrate about the status quo of product leadership in today’s business world. In practice, product thinking gives us a way to align everything a business is capable of around…
This started as an internal hot topic - why do people so often misunderstand what ‘product’ means? As we talked through various opinions, it dawned on me. The word is the problem. It’s being used to describe so many things. From our day-to-day…
In case you weren’t aware, there is quite a lot of discussion about the current climate emergency we are facing. Earlier this year, a group of like-minded Badgers started ‘Green Badger’, an open forum and action group where we could discuss climate…
Here’s why it’s worth using Rust to build networked services
As ‘people people’ we deeply care about our fellow Badgers and want to make sure we’re all supported in our teams and day to day work. We know good health does not only have a positive impact on our people’s productivity, but moreover on their…
Previously we announced our ShareThyme’s exclusive baking competition to celebrate the social platform’s new ambassadors - former Great British Bake Off contestants Val Stones and Selasi Gbormittah. Two lucky people have been given the chance to…
How we dreamt up a platform and made it happen in 8 days - Our Product Director Harri explains.
We’re proud to announce that for the second time running we are Nr. 47 of Econsultancy’s annual ‘Top 100 Digital Agencies 2019’ report, published today. It ranks the UK’s top 100 digital marketing, design and build, technical and creative agencies…
What’s always impressed me about improv comedians is their seemingly impossible ability to take a suggestion and not only run with it, but skip around with it in imaginative and unexpected ways. They’re able to create a world that, until that…
There are several perks to studying computer science at university (you know - computers, science and being reminded that we can become the next Elon Musk). Sadly, learning web development isn’t one of them. So, I decided that I…
We're thrilled to announce that former Great British Bake Off contestants Val Stones and Selasi Gbormittah have become ShareThyme ambassadors - and to celebrate, we're giving two lucky people (plus a friend each) the chance to experience a personal…
Despite up to 96% of all innovation projects failing to make any return on investment and 97% of large businesses believing digital innovation to be critical to their future success, how do organisations find the balance between challenging the…