This week we look at funding agility, finding insights from research and the death of microservices.
Enabling the Team
How Should I Fund Agility? by Myles Ogilvie
An example of how to shift from funding projects to funding teams with a bonus conversation on CapEx versus OpEx.
Research: How One Bad Employee Can Corrupt A Whole Team by Stephen Dimmock and William C. Gerken
Bad employees negatively influence good employees (with a 1.59 multiplier), even controlling for effects like incentives, managers and more.
Product Vision
Reflecting On A Career In Product Management by Ken Norton
The art of Product is greater than the science, fall in love with problems-not solutions, bet on trends and more.
How Twitter Applied The “jobs To Be Done” Approach To Strategy by David S. Duncan and Brian Hindo
Twitter refocused on its core jobs: "inform me", "have a conversation" and "inform others" in 2015 and the results speak for themselves.
Continuous Research
How Exactly Do You Find Insights From Qualitative User Research? by Taylor Nguyen
In just 4 steps, Taylor talks through how she has turned design research data into actionable insights.
How To Visualize Your Qualitative User Research Results For Maximum Impact by Ditte Hvas Mortensen
Learn the pros & cons of the different methodologies when visualising your research data.
Ideate & Design
Less Doesn’t Have To Be More. It Can Just Be Less by Christopher Butler
Is a simple design always the best design? Learn how to design better products by focusing on how you want your users to interact with your product.
The Unseen Benefits Of Accessibility by Christian Heilmann
For Christian, accessibility means hard-core usability. Accessibility should not be a chore but instead a design process that benefits all your users.
Architect & Build
Microservices Are Dead — long Live Miniservices by Fernando Doglio
Very few people are using microservices correctly because they aren't properly decoupled. Using a message bus ensures decoupling.
From Domains To Value Streams by Nick Tune
How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together? Nick shares his thoughts.
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