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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
Leadership
Inspiring Strong Product Leaders: A Conversation with Petra Wille by Teresa Torres
Petra has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft.
Asking Better Questions by John Cutler
This article focuses on helpful approaches to eliciting impactful questions so that your team can make better decisions about what to measure.
Guerilla Testing
Guerilla Testing is not always suited for all situations. Guy Ligertwood talks through some tips on how to conduct your own guerilla testing and how to get the most out of it.
Guerrilla testing: what it is and when to use it by Benjamin Parry
In this article, Benjamin Parry touches on the different guerilla testing methods his team uses at Clearleft: intercept interviews, prototype testing, and light-touch ethnography.
Design Sprints
Design Sprints: The Complete Guide by George Kordatos
George breaks down the goals for each phase of the sprint and his golden rules to ensure a successful design sprint.
Danny Holtschke
Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Danny Holtschke shares an open-source framework for conducting remote design sprints.
Career Advancement
Finding the steps on the individual contributor ladder by Nicky Wrightson
Not everyone wants to go down the management track. Nicky shares her experience climbing the individual contributor ranks to Principal Engineer.
Things to know about engineering levels by Charity Majors
People want to level up - "just tell me what I need to do". But you need to develop judgement around what needs to be done to really level up.
Scrum - Friend or Foe
Why Scrum is killing your product by Henry Latham
Products owners often have limited end-user contact and end up just writing requirements. and focusing on story points and estimates.
Why Scrum doesn’t kill your product — you do by Maarten Dalmijn
Any process can be misused - that is the fault of the people and not the process.
Join us online for UXDX Berlin on the 25th of November.
Hosted by Noemi Bellioni, UXDX Berlin will take a deep dive on the different tactics used to align your product team, using design practices through:
- The discovery methods that Soeren applied for his product team in Sofatutor;
- The learnings Giacomo discovered while creating a design language system for Accenture - Rapid; and
- Using the storytelling method as a way to ensure your teams understanding of product goals
Since we're online, we'll be doing things a little differently - we are releasing the talks online at 8:00 so you can watch them in your own time. The live event can then be more interactive where the speakers discuss their topics and address any questions you have.
Tickets are FREE, but spaces are limited. Register your ticket through this link:
