This week we look at team responsibilities, UX in public service, platform products and a thought experiment.
Enabling the Team
Who’s Responsible for What in the Product Trio? by Teresa Torres
In traditional organisations, people have separate areas of responsibility and accountability. But in product teams, this can get in the way of progress.
Building better teams with a simple thought experiment by Rory Madden
What kind of team would we want if we did not know what roles we would play in the team?
Product Vision
The Strategy/Metric/Tactic Lockup by Gibson Biddle
Netflix didn't know which strategy would help improve retention the most. So they allocated 6 different strategies to different teams and ran experiments.
Product build-measure-learn cycles can take weeks. But you can iterate language 5X in a single day. Matt shares the 4 steps to uncover product / language fit.
Continuous Discovery
User Interview Questions by Mary Formanek
Here's a quick and easy guide to help you when writing your user interview questions, including examples.
5 Things I Learned Leading UX In The Canadian Public Service by Antoine Bedward, Ph.D
Antoine shares his main learnings in building a UX function for the government and how you can apply this to your own organisation.
Continuous Design
Design System Office Hours: Releasing & Versioning by Davy Fung and PJ Onori
Davy & PJ share how they manage their design system releases as well as the differences between versioning and version control.
Applying DesignOps To Product Teams by Patrizia Bertini
Patrizia shares the objectives and responsibilities of DesignOps and how it interacts with product teams and ProductOps.
Continuous Delivery
Communicating the Importance of Engineering Work in Business Terms by David Van Couvering
It takes years for devs to understand good code from bad so don't try to explain it to business partners. David shares how to talk to them in their language.
Product for Internal Platforms by Camille Fournier
An engineers view of how to build a platform product, covering customer conversations, prototypes and more.
How are teams structured? Is there one Product Manager per development team or does a Product Manager set the objectives for many teams? How do Product Managers ensure that work isn't being duplicated across the organisation?
Hear from Google, Pendo, Doctolib and DueDil on how they are tackling these questions and more.
If you are having issues defining the remit of the Product Manager role, or you just want to hear how others are doing it this is an event not to be missed.
Hear from Google, Pendo, Doctolib and DueDil on how they are tackling these questions and more.
If you are having issues defining the remit of the Product Manager role, or you just want to hear how others are doing it this is an event not to be missed.
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