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Ben Edmunds (Wayfair)

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Sep 21, 2021
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ANECDOTE

Template Creation Partnership

  • Wayfair builds application templates in partnership with engineering teams actively using the relevant technology.
  • This approach ensures the templates are practical and promotes wider adoption.
ADVICE

Organic Adoption Strategy

  • Drive organic adoption of new tools/templates by making them valuable and easy to use.
  • This follows the diffusion of innovations model, targeting early adopters and letting adoption spread naturally.
ANECDOTE

OKR-Driven Development

  • Wayfair uses OKRs to set goals, like a target percentage of template adoption, and tracks progress throughout the quarter.
  • If adoption is low, they re-evaluate their goals or try new approaches to reach them.
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