This week we look at dual-track agile, transformation metrics, experience vision and CUPID development (we missed Valentine's day by 1 day!)
Enabling the Team
How Autodesk implemented Dual-Track Agile by Rory Madden
A case study on how the Autodesk design team conflicted with their agile developers and how they experimented their way to dual-track agile.
Too many transformation efforts are projects that need to be delivered. Barry shares why this mindset ensures transformations fail.
Product Vision
Your Roadmap Isn’t Really A Road Map by Itamar Gilad
How to build a roadmap with a clear objective and lots of alternative routes. And how to manage those asking for hard dates.
Two In A Box PM by Marty Cagan
Product management is a big role. But if you split it ensure that the PM has customer access, stakeholder access and engineer/design access.
Continuous Discovery
Understanding Users’ Unmet Needs Through Mixed-Methods Research by Yingzhao Zhou
Learn how Yingzhao used research and user data to predict user needs which informed the future direction of the product and business space.
The Experience Vision: A Self-Fulfilling UX Strategy by Jared M. Spool
In 1987, Apple created a vision of computing in 2010, which aligned well with the iPad, released that year, because they focused on experience over product.
Continuous Design
Why You Should Be Facilitating Human-Centered Design (HCD) Workshops by Delanie Ricketts
Looking to facilitate your own HCD workshops? Delanie shares 12 activities and how to facilitate and execute amazing workshops.
The Psychology Of Your Scrolling Addiction by Kaitlin Woolley and Marissa A. Sharif
Research shows the more you watch, the more you want to watch. But interruptions reduce peoples propensity to keep consuming. Set social media timers!
Continuous Delivery
CUPID - for Joyful Coding by Dan Terhorst-North
SOLID has a good reign but there are issues with the approach. CUPID is a modern remix - Composable,
Unix philosophy, Predictable, Idiomatic and Domain-based.
Unix philosophy, Predictable, Idiomatic and Domain-based.
Why Bad Code Exists by Jeff Langr and Tim Ottinger
Working solo we think our code is great but others can find it hard to read. Jeff and Tim share the conditions that lead to good and bad code.
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