This week we take a look at slacking at work, reverse impact mapping, field trips, wikipedia redesign and the impact of increasing developer responsibility.
Enabling the Team
Meetings *are* the work by Elizabeth Ayer
Meeting culture sucks. But the only work that matters in a knowledge economy happens when we are together.
I’ve Been Employed In Tech For Years, But I’ve Almost Never Worked by Emmanuel Maggiori
What is happening right now in tech may be one of the greatest market inefficiencies—or even deceptions—in history.
Product Direction
The REVERSE Impact Map and Mindset-Shift-Voodoo by Büşra Coşkuner
Stakeholders have todo list of solutions they want your team to deliver. Use reverse impact maps to uncover the real outcome and suggest alternatives.
What Exactly is a Product Strategy? by Roman Pichler
Find out what a product strategy is, which information should it contain, and how you can ensure that it will result in a successful product.
Continuous Discovery
A Pragmatist’s Guide To Lean User Research by Paul Boag
Discovery can risk becoming bloated. Lean User Research saves time by focusing on answering specific questions, rather than trying to understand everything.
Using Field Trips To Generate Insights At Kitch by Raquel Félix
Field trips are a really good source of extra data and extra information that bring more context to your insights.
Continuous Design
Design Notes On The 2023 Wikipedia Redesign by Alex Hollender
An insight into the design process behind the Wikipedia redesign and the constraints that the team were working under.
How to Innovate with Quick Experiments by Jim Morris
Quick experiments can help you innovate to get to the right idea. It's learning, building, and then measuring.
Continuous Delivery
The Side Effect Of Increasing Developer Responsibility by Jeremy Daly
With the move to the cloud, more responsibility is being taken on by devs in the name of DevOps. This overhead is distracting from building products.
The End of Front-End Development by Josh W. Comeau
LLM's will actually help developers to be more productive and more in demand. It happened in other industries and it is likely to happen here as well.
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