This week we look at what you should learn from the Spotify Model, PM accountability, and an argument against product teams.
Enabling the Team
The Top 3 Points You Should Have Paid Attention To In The Spotify Engineering Culture Videos by Jason Yip
Self-management isn't 'no structure' - it's a different structure. Distribute responsibilities, decision-making, have conflict resolution processes and more.
How Companies Are Using Tech to Give Employees More Autonomy by Ethan Bernstein, Michael Y. Lee, and Joost Minnaar
Technology can enable team autonomy by removing the things we don't like - red-tape, top-down decision making and antiquated compliance approaches.
Product Vision
Product roadmaps should be more than just a tick-a-box exercise. Scott talks through processes & habits to ensure the overall success of your product roadmaps.
Value and Viability by Marty Cagan
On empowered product teams, the product manager is responsible for value and viability. On feature teams, it is the stakeholder requesting the project.
Continuous Discovery
Learn tactics that interweave insights within your business culture and decisions to ensure that the products you create solve your users' problems.
Tips To Enhance Your Team’s User Research Insights by Caroline Collins
Caroline shares 3 best practices on how she's created insights from the user data she's collated and make every research opportunity invaluable.
Continuous Design
“Agile” Is Eating Design’s Young; Or, Yet Another Reason Why “Embedding” Designers Doesn’t Work by Peter Merholz
Peter argues that a designer in a team can't know everything and juniors can't learn. I think there are solutions but always good to hear dissenting voices.
The Ultimate Guide to Product Design Accessibility by Adam Fard
Adam talks through how to ensure your product is accessible and inclusive, with examples.
Continuous Delivery
Serverless: Focusing on Actors and their Activities by John Gilbert
When defining module boundaries focus on the actions that actors take rather than logical grouping (e.g. OrdersService) to make maintenance more flexible.
What are the Fitness Functions? by Ritresh Girdhar
Fitness functions enable confidence in a distributed architecture. But fitness functions come in many shapes and sizes.
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