Cross-Functional #69: This week: Career Trends, Discovery from an Engineer's Perspective and a DDD Kata

22 December 2021

This week we look at career trends, discovery from an engineer's perspective and a DDD kata.

Enabling the Team

18 Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022 by Nick deWilde

A fascinating look at some of the predicted trends in career paths over the coming years.

New Data Finally Shows Why People Are Quitting Their Jobs. It's Definitely Not Because They're Lazy by Bill Murphy

12.7M people quit their jobs this summer in America. And the data shows it is not because they are lazy.

Product Vision

How To 10x Your Muscle For Bringing Clarity To Ambiguity by Alexis & Adrienne

When you have ambiguity create a tree of theories and choose your metrics based on what they'll unlock.

A New Way to Think About Product-Market Fit by Erez Druk

You are either in the desert, near the mountain or at the mountain peak. It is critical to be honest with where you are so you can act accordingly.

Continuous Research

Product Discovery from an Engineer’s Point of View by Charlotte Payne

Focusing on rapid experimentation, Charlotte shares the FT team's journey on what worked, what didn't & their learnings from an engineer's POV.

How To Create Better UX Research Findings Presentations by Kai Wong

Pulling learnings from data science, UX and journalism, Kai talks through how to best present your research findings & get your stakeholders on board.

Ideate & Design

Why The Infinite Scroll Is So Addictive by Grant Collins

Learn the psychology behind the infinite scroll design: Variable-Ratio Reinforcement Schedule

How We Built An Inclusive Digital Voucher System For The Singapore Government by Open Government Products

Follow how the team at Open Gov't Products designed & released an inclusive digital voucher system for the citizens of Singapore during the pandemic.

Architect & Build

Strategic Domain-Driven Design Kata: Delivericious by Nick Tune

Identifying domain boundaries can be challenging. Nick has created a Kata to uncover the boundaries for Delivericous, our new delivery service.

Why Intuitive Troubleshooting Has Stopped Working for You by Pete Hodgson

With distributed systems, you gain scalability and resilience at the cost of intuitiveness. Observability tools can help to bridge that gap.

Introducing UXDX Training

As an early Christmas present, we've launched the first of our training courses for those interested in how to make the shift from projects to products.