The Product Model

Cross-Functional #116: How product strategy stalls in the real world and How have the layoffs impacted UX roles

This week we take a look at how product strategy stalls in the real world, how have the layoffs impacted UX roles, how Honeycomb used serverless to speed up their servers and more. 

Enabling the Team

Add skills not people to your cross-functional teams by Chris Combe
A cross-functional team should have the necessary skills needed for the regular delivery of customer value.

Why product teams work best without a single leader by Brian Donohue

We had an offsite a couple of weeks ago where we reached a counterintuitive conclusion: product teams work best without a single leader.

Product Direction

Is it time to ditch the old SaaS metrics? by Kyle Poyar
Traditional SaaS metrics playbook can be extremely misleading when it comes to managing a PLG or consumption-based SaaS company.

How product ptrategy stalls in the real world — 6 common failure modes by First Round Review
The best-laid out plans can easily stall when your strategy makes its way off the page and the rubber meets the road. 

Continuous Discovery

How have the layoffs impacted UX roles? by Lawton Pybus
UX professionals have been among those recently laid off. And tensions are high for everyone working in the field.


Remote contextual inquiry: Lessons learned by Kate Kaplan 
Contextual inquiry is a field study that's in-depth observation and interviews of a small sample to gain an understanding of work practices and behaviors.

Continuous Design

Ballet dancers and shot putters by Matthew Ström
Starting a career in design is like crash-landing on Mars. You may have studied it through a telescope, but nothing can prepare you for actually being there.


How we designed our user onboarding flow at knock by Sam Seely
A great onboarding flow is an act of focus and discipline. It chooses a single objective for a new user and then helps them reach it.

Continuous Delivery

How Nordhealth uses custom properties in web components by David Darnes
David share how we solved the problems around styling Web Components by using CSS Custom Properties.

How Honeycomb used serverless to speed up their servers by Patrick Zhang

Jessica Kerr explains why Honeycomb’s architecture decisions are anchored around providing a responsive, highly interactive, and flexible experience.

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Data Scientist Strategic Research

Spotify is looking for a Data Scientist to work on our centralized Ads Insights team to surface new opportunities and drive deep understanding of metrics across our R&D organization. In this role, you will study user behaviour, pivotal initiatives, revenue opportunities, business models and new features, to bring data and insights into every decision we make for Spotify listeners, creators and advertisers.  Learn more about our work by reading
 

Senior Product Manager, Royalty Management Services

Utopia is looking for a Senior Product Manager for the Utopia Royalty Management Business Unit to our Royalty Management services team. You will have responsibility for driving the product strategy for Utopia’s royalty services for collection societies that deliver royalties from DSPs, VOD, and non-digital services like radio and TV.

Product Designer

Figma is looking for an experienced designers of all levels to join our team and help us improve our core tools (Figma and FigJam), build new ways to collaborate, improve our tooling and experiences for Figma admins, and grow our business and the Figma Community.

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