This week we look at how Reddit use ProductOps to ensure consistency across teams, a unified theory for designing anything and how software architecture enables teams.
Enabling the Team
You Don’t Need Permission by Steve Blank
A lot of people waste time trying to convince others of a new way of working. Stop trying to sell it - just do it!
Every Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions by Jennifer Jordan, Michael Wade and Elizabeth Teracino
Setting a vision, listening, being data-informed, acknowledging areas of weakness, being adaptable, sharing power and a bias towards action. Simple!
Product Vision
To avoid the "Las Vegas Strip" problem set up a ProductOps team to help maintain coherence across teams.
Standardize Your Team With ProductOps by Steve Johnson
PooductOps teams can help by taming data, guiding market research, suggesting standardised processes and more.
Continuous Research
UX Hiring: The Power of the Screening Question by Jared M. Spool
“In 250 words or less, tell us about the UX project you’re most proud of.” This lets people share their passion and experience in ways that CV's don't.
“But it’s only 5 users, it doesn’t mean a thing” — are AB tests better than user testing? by Magda Faszczewska
A/B Testing or User Testing? Magda talks through the strengths and limitations for each that can help you next time you have to make this choice.
Ideate & Design
Designing the Smallest Possible Thing by Laura Klein
Designers can feel tremendous pressure to cut corners, skip research and jump straight from idea to execution. But we need to design less - not faster.
A Unified Theory for Designing Just About Anything by Christina Wodtke
CAMP - Context, Architecture, Mechanics and Poetics. When work is off what is broken? Wrong context? Lack of architecture? Inharmonious mechanics?
Architect & Build
Architecture Topologies & Architecture as Enabling Team by Eduardo da Silva
Ivory tower architectures and no-architecture are both bad. Either have an architect in the team or share out the architecture responsibilities.
Architecture Review Across Teams by Ron Theis
Tableau implemented architecture reviews to improve engineering communication and disseminate knowledge throughout the team.
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