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Cross-Functional #189: How would an apprenticeship work?
In last week’s newsletter we asked whether you thought apprenticeships were a good way to learn product development skills and 50% agreed, with some really great comments as well.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #188: Should we bring back apprenticeships?
As the move towards more cross-functional teams continues there is one big challenge: how do junior people upskill to become valuable contributors on a team?
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #187: Processes should work despite the people
This week we've gone with the "bad" theme. We have articles on all the ways that people are doing processes wrong. But, like user error, this is actually a problem with the process and not with the people.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #186: Design and Developer Pairing
A few years ago the biggest problem to solve in product development was the gap between developers and operations. New DevOps practices emerged to ensure better collaboration between the teams.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #185: Why we can't have nice things!
While benchmarking his system, Andres Freund, a developer at Microsoft, noticed an anomaly that unravelled into a scenario worthy of a cyber espionage thriller.The core of this story focuses on XZ Utils, a seemingly innocuous open-source library for file compression and decompres
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #184: Is the product downturn turning around?
Lots of product jobs were cut last year across the board from product management, research, design and development. Luckily there appears to be signs that the economy had a soft landing and hiring is starting to come back.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #183: Are Empowered Product Teams Realistic?
Marty Cagan has released a new book, Transformed, which goes into how companies can transition to empowered product teams.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #182: AI Programmers
A new AI tool, Devin, was launched this week, which created a bit of fuss in the dev community. Devin is billed as an AI programmer, and while it is not (yet) a replacement for software developers, it goes far beyond the prompt-driven coding approach that other tools use. Devin c
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #181: The Role of a Manager
With the recent spate of layoffs in the tech industry, there has been a resurgence in the concept of the Player-Coach manager for teams; a manager who looks after the team while still delivering as an individual contributor.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #180: The backdown
After a loud and resounding backlash against Apple's decision to remove PWA features from Safari they have backed down and confirmed that they will keep all existing features.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #179: Pick your Poison
Google's Gemini AI has been making headlines for some of the more interesting responses that they generate, leading them to turn off image generation.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #178: The Empire Strikes Back
A few weeks ago I asked whether PWAs will take off this year. There were positive signs that Apple would need to enable PWA functionality that they had been holding back for the past 5+ years - but they came up with a pretty cynical workaround.
Read edition ↗Cross-Functional #177: Is it better to buy your software?
Basecamp was one of the first to shift to the new SaaS (software as a service) model back in 2003. It was such a new concept at the time that their bank pushed back on recurring payments expecting a lot of chargebacks!
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