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What's new in Product, UX, Design, Dev and Empowering your Teams
What's new in Product, UX, Design, Dev and Empowering your Teams
Prioritising Your Backlog
A quick guide to Backlog Refinement by Neil Killick
Backlog refinement is a continuous research activity and not just adding acceptance criteria to stories.
Prioritising a Product Backlog When Everything is Important by Roman Pichler
Priority should be a singular. Focus on one thing. and execute.
Effective UX Research
by Christopher Ratcliff and Kuldeep Kelkar
The team at UserZoom share their top Behavioural and Attitudinal metrics for measuring, and selling, the value of UX research.
Which UX Research methodology should you use? by Nikki Anderson
Nikki breaks down when to use generative or evaluative research and a comprehensive list of the different methodologies in each.
Adopting Design Systems
Stop building Design Systems without a tracker by Sandra Schaus
Design systems risk being left on the shelf. Build a process to empower users and track adoption.
Driving design system adoption by Maya Hampton
The Design System is the easy bit - adoption is the challenge. How REI built and supported the adoption of their design system.
Managing Coupling
Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management by Nick Brandt
Use Graphql for database queries and use other tools for state management to avoid over-complicating your setup.
Monolith -> Services: Theory & Practice by Kent Beck
Good software design is about managing coupling. You need to get the right balance between DRY and WET
Managing Teams (Local and Remote)
How to debug distributed teamwork, as suggested by new research by Leisa Reichelt
Remote work is increasing equality in teams but risking innovation and increasing anxiety. Leisa shares some tips to overcome these.
Most Managers Don’t Know How to Coach People. But They Can Learn. by Julia Milner and Trenton Milner
Coaching is helping people to learn rather than teaching them.
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