The Product Model

#148 of weekly news across Product, UX, Design and Dev

This week we take a look at collapsing the talent stack, product strategies, the decline in design (thinking), platform teams and more.

Enabling the Team

6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation by Andrew White, Michael Wheelock, Adam Canwell, and Michael Smets

It's not just about the processes, resources, and technology. When the going inevitably gets tough, emotional support is needed to manage the stress.

Collapsing the Talent Stack, Persona-Led Growth & Designing Organizations for the Future by Scott Belsky

Scott examines how roles such as product leader, designer, product marketer, and customer researcher can be reimagined and consolidated.

Product Direction

Product Strategy Framework: A Game of Offense and Defense by Ely Lerner 

Increase your chances of a successful product strategy by adopting the Offense vs. Defense Framework.


Exploring Alternative Strategies by Charles Lambkin

We talk a lot about decisions, but mostly about the need to get them made, quickly, and who will make them. But we don't talk about their quality.

Continuous Discovery

Using Opportunity Solution Trees in Everyday Life by Melissa Suzuno

Opportunity solution trees are a great way to bring order to chaos in product discovery. They can also help us do the same in everyday life.


UX Team Of One: A Flexible Strategy For A New Startup Practice by Clara Kuo
So you’ve made the decision to leave your team and join an early stage startup as their first researcher: You’re now a team of one.

Continuous Design

Write More, Design Less (and Better) by Calo Amico
Writing helps designers understand the contextual richness of a topic and expose gaps and biases in our understanding of a subject.


The Decline In Design (Thinking) by Brian Le

Democratising design might have been a mistake - it has been "corporatized" and used to justify any solution. 

Continuous Delivery

Linking Modular Architecture to Development Teams by Matthew Foster

Want a 60% reduction in cycle time and an 80% reduction in team startup costs? Use team topologies to match a modular architecture for your product.

How Platform Teams Get Stuff Done by Pete Hodgson

Platform teams need to use effective collaboration patterns with their customer teams, based on the maturity of each team and the phase of their adoption.

UXDX EMEA Agenda Now Live

UXDX EMEA Agenda now live

We've published just over 50% of the talks for this years event and it is lining up to be our best year yet! With sessions on AI, transformations in practice, doing more with less and 

  • 2 stages
  • 2,000 people in-person and online
  • 22 talks - get inspired and insights into how others are working
  • 4 panels - industry leaders sharing cross-functional perspectives
  • 4 debates - two people contesting the merits of a controversial industry practice
  • 6 forums - open sessions for you to share your challenges, and solutions
  • 5 lightning talks - quick insights to get you thinking
  • 10 workshops - going deep into key product development skills

Oh, and did we mention free coffee and pizza all day courtesy of Fullstory and Zeplin?

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