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Remote Working is Here to Stay - How Do You Make It a Success?
How do you successfully onboard people? Is it cheaper? How do you know people are working? Insights from our panel at UXDX 2018
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How to Empower Women in Tech
Rashi Khurana, VP of Engineering at Shutterstock, talks stereotypes, ways of supporting women and what companies can do.
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Why do projects get slower over time? Part 3
As you scale, products become more complex, alignment becomes more difficult and dependencies can slow things down. Product teams solve all of these issues.
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How to Become a World-Class Designer
MIchael Gough, Vice President of Product Design at Uber, shares his approach to hiring and tips for aspiring designers.
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How to Transition to Data-Enabled Design
Eva Deckers, Design Director at Philips Design, discusses why the future of design is making data and artificial intelligence part of the creative process
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Why do projects get slower over time? Part 2
Projects are incentivised to deliver now which leads to cutting corners and increasing complexity. The resulting debt causes delivery to slow down to a crawl over time.
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Why do projects get slower over time? Part 1
Measuring projects on time and cost instead of value delivered causes people to optimise for predictability at the expense of speed of delivery and value.
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Saying No to Features
Alice Newton-Rex, Chief Product Officer of WorldRemit, explains how she reached to the conclusion that learning how to say no to features is the secret to successfully growing a product.
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Rashi Khurana, VP of Engineering at Shutterstock, on How She Became an Engineer and How She Manages Fast-growing Dev Teams
Rashi shares with us how she manages successful cross-functional teams and balances delivery with upskilling.
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The 6 hidden costs of large waterfall projects
Releasing code requires testing. So releasing more regularly can look more expensive. But this is only if you ignore the costs that large projects impose.
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Product development is unpredictable
Our project delivery processes are built around predictability. But software development is unpredictable. How can teams move away from the constraints of current processes to build products that customers really love.
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A bad system beats a good person every time
Strict scope management is hurting more than it is helping. Being flexible, where it makes sense, will deliver better products and happier teams.
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The Biggest Risk in Software Development
Software projects fails at an alarming rate but that isn't the biggest risk when building a product. Failure to build the right product costs much, much more.
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