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Cross-Functional #56: This week: Long term impacts of remote work, DesignOps and the risks of replatforming

 
This week we look at long term impacts of remote work, DesignOps and the risks of replatforming.
 
 
Enabling the Team
Remote Work Threatens Long-Term Innovation by Jessica Stillman
Optimising one area can hurt a system. Individual productivity increases with remote work because distractions are down but effectiveness suffers.
Boss To Leader To Steward Leader: Three Stages Of Leadership Maturity by Rajeev Peshawaria
We've all heard of shifting from a boss to a leader. Rajeev introduces a new step: steward leadership; expanding the focus to society at large.
 
 
Product Vision
 
Roadmaps bring strategy to life. But don't confuse them with backlogs. Roadmaps contain problems, not solutions.
Too few segments and you might neglect important or potential customers. Too many and you risk duplicating effort.
Continuous Research
 
Using the UCD Framework, learn how you can build great products that focuses simply on your users' problems.
Improve your feedback systems. Learn how the Shopify team used their feedback systems to save time iand help create better experiences for their users.
 
 
Ideate & Design
 
When demands on design are increasing and the team is growing like gangbusters you need to put in systems to manage the growth.
Text Alignment Best Practises by Matthew Godfrey
6 text alignment best practices to ensure easy reading.
Architect & Build
 
Given Conway's Law teams should look at their structure to influence architecture and process.
The Risks of Replatforming by Rich Mironov
Rich shares why things go wrong, the true costs and how to replatform safely by user cohort.
 
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