Cross-Functional #66: This week: Mapping company mindsets, measuring impact, design debt and the problem of pull requests.

1 December 2021

This week we look at mapping company mindsets, measuring impact, design debt and the problem of pull requests.

Enabling the Team

Company Mindset - Mapping Out The Ultimate Challenge by Itamar Gilad

Processes are based on principles that are driven by core beliefs. New techniques always face a challenge unless you align on the core beliefs.

Not Everyone Needs OKRs by Christina Wodtke

Customer Support, HR and Sales will struggle with OKRs because they work in very different ways.

Product Vision

How We Leverage Failure At Blablacar by Nicolas Beytout Failure is inevitable. The teams at Blablacar have turned failure from an individual responsibility into a cooperative system, learn how!

Measuring Impact — Picking The Right Metrics In Product by Curtis Stanier

Curtis shares how he chooses metrics to track product changes along with mistakes he's made previously of picking slow-moving lagging indicators.

Continuous Research

An Experience of a “Data Ecosystem” by Antriksh Goel

Antriksh shares how the data you've collected is consumed in a product organization. He goes through the lifecycle of data, who interacts with it and when.

How Can Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize User Experience? by Premjith B P K

Premijth shares 5 examples of how to embed AI into your user journey and improve your UX.

Ideate & Design

The Start Of A New Era For Responsive Web Design by Francois Brill

Web design is always in a state of change. Learn what is the next change is & how you can adapt your strategies to be at the forefront of web design.

Why Addressing Design Debt May Be Your Biggest Payoff by Michelle M. Campbell

Launching fast leads to some concessions, i.e. design debt. Learn 6 best practices to turn this challenge into an opportunity for your team & product

Architect & Build

Are Pull Requests Holding Back Your Team? by David Masters

Pull requests are great in low trust environments (open source) but they lead to long-lived feature branches, lower team performance and bad code reviews.

Programmers Should Stop Celebrating Incompetence by David Heinemeier Hansson

To avoid being an advanced beginner developers should focus on improving their craft. This one raised quite a lot of Twitter controversy.

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