This week we look at Josh Seidon's advice for fitting UX into a sprint, product management career tracks and tips for good REST API design.
Enabling the Team
Build Your Reputation as a Trustworthy Leader by Ron Carucci
Reliability and integrity are table stakes. State and live your values, treat others and their work with dignity and balance transparency with discretion.
The Post-Pandemic World Will Be 'a Much Better Place' by Minda Zetlin
Expect fewer hierarchies and more hope. "We have had proof of just how good networks are at solving modern problems. I don't think we can go back."
Product Vision
Time for a Dual Product Management Career Path by Ken Norton
People management isn't for everyone. We need to separate Management and Individual Contributor tracks.
Build a (Product Manager) Competency Framework in Your Organization by Anthony Murphy
Define the career ladder, brainstorm competency areas, pick your mix and build your career matrix. Then communicate!
Continuous Research
When User Research Doesn’t Fit In A Sprint by Josh Seiden
When managing by outcomes you're never done. Show progress instead of trying to shrink the work.
I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today disturbs me by Jesse James Garrett
Too much of UX is actually UX Theatre to fit within sprints instead of following the original human-centered principles.
Ideate & Prototype
Designing A Tipping Experience For Swiggy Delivery by Milan Maheshwari
Learn how the team in Swiggy increased the overall tip amounts by 50% by redesigning their tipping experience.
How To Improve Your Experiment Design by Teresa Torres
Test assumptions, not ideas to avoid the problems of getting too involved in a solution.
Architect & Build
Why You Shouldn’t Use Booleans In Rest APIs by Hany Elemary
Using a number of great examples Hany explains the problems with using booleans in APIs and how to avoid them.
RESTful API Design Tips by Peter Boyer
Peter lists some useful tips for tradeoffs when designing a REST API.
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