by Veronica Drake | Jul 26, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
As your organization grows and operations become spread out, communication acts as the key to ensuring that teams and projects are aligned. Good communication signals maturity, and setting your team up with set processes that nurture this practice will prevent...
by Ranjeet Minampally | Sep 16, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
Ranjeet Minampally is Stack Moxie’s Senior Director of Product Engineering with an IT background. He has been a career-long advocate of servant leadership and strategic product roadmapping, and now supports Stack Moxie in finding new ways to deliver solutions in the...
by Veronica Drake | Aug 26, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
When creating a transparent organization, it’s fundamentally important to ensure that everyone understands the company’s tech stack and how each piece fits together. From questions about capacity to considering new technology to add, the first step is to provide a...
by Veronica Drake | Aug 16, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
As part of a look at how communication serves to benefit your team’s trust, especially related to errors and outages, it’s important to view error maturity as its own (though related) component to be evaluated and optimized. Along with a process for reporting errors...
by Veronica Drake | Aug 4, 2021 | Marketing Operations
An important part of any organization’s error maturity is having a “rolling back” functionality so the team can revert back to a previous working dataset in the event of a failure. Despite being a powerful and important feature, few marketing technologies...
by Bria Fox | Jul 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
This week, Stack Moxie was featured on Heinz Marketing’s blog post as App of the Week. Heinz’s Marketing Planning Manager, Lisa Heay, said a few words about her experience with our app: If you are in MOPs, you understand. I’ve given up many weekend days...
by M.H. Lines | Jul 12, 2021 | Best Practices, Product and Features, Stack Moxie Testing
Spoiler alert: We just launched a new feature named “Templates.” In my former days building a Center of Excellence for Marketing Operations or managing consulting teams, testing was both the bane of my existence and the savior. It is an oft lamented irony of...
by M.H. Lines | Jul 8, 2021 | Best Practices
One of the most interesting things I’ve learned in the past few years was the concept of complicated vs. complex problems. Borrowing from Ted Kini’s article in Inc, and quoting Rick Nason: A complicated issue, explains Nason, is one in which “the components can...
by Bria Fox | Jun 28, 2021 | Culture and Values, Start-up Life
The month of June is widely known as Pride Month and this has led the marketing world to push many companies to switch their logos to includes LGBTQIA+ flags until the 30th. No initiatives, no volunteering, no fundraisers. The stores fill with pride and ally-friendly...
by Veronica Drake | Jun 25, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
Keeping everyone in the loop at your organization about what’s going on in terms of projects, outages, and your tech stack is a precursor for an efficient company-wide process. Publishing service-level agreements (SLAs) benefits both you and the entire team while...