Cross-Functional #82: This week: Team flow, the art of surveys, dark mode and web standards

30 March 2022

This week we look at team flow, the art of surveys, dark mode, web standards and more.

Enabling the Team

Team Flow Appears To Be A Distinct Brain State by Eric W. Dolan

Brain studies suggest that team flow is a different state to team collaboration, with increased brain waves linked to information processing.

Dimensions of Power by Kent Beck

Kent lists 56 ways in which power differentials can occur in teams and how you can try to mitigate them.

Product Vision

A Product Strategy is NOT just a Vision and Roadmap by Anthony Murphy

Strategy and roadmaps are not the same. Strategies are the set of choices you can make. Your roadmap is the current choice you are making.

How to Hire a Product Manager by Ken Norton

Hire smart people with a strong technical background and spidey-sense product instincts. But most important - make sure they've shipped something!

Continuous Discovery

Quantitative Concept Testing by Leah Acosta, Caroline Kim and Ryan Finch

Bring your users in before designing your products! Learn how you can integrate quantitative concept testing into your product development process.

The Art of Surveys: Analyzing Data to Improve the Docs Experience by Allison Mui

Allison discusses the ways they derive insights from research data at MongoDB using qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Continuous Design

Prioritizing Problems to Inform Product Design by David Lick, Julia Barrett

Google researchers, David & Julia, share how to shift your design team's mindset from solutions to problems to ensure innovation in your team.

Why Is Dark Mode So Captivating? by Josep Ferrer

Less blue light, reduced eye strain, uses less battery and is more inclusive for people with light sensitivity. Dark mode has a lot going for it.

Continuous Delivery

Remix - Web Standards Are Cool Again by Drew Lytle

A review of Remix and how it couples the developer experience with the user experience and unites backend and frontend developers. Sounds familiar :)

You Can't Test All of Your Serverless Application, but You Should Monitor It. Here's Why. by Marco Troisi

You can't test every edge case but you can observe every error. Distributed systems are hard - monitoring becomes critical.

BUILDING PRODUCT TEAMS IN HYPER GROWTH

Building Product Teams During Accelerated Growth by Betina Evancha, VP of Product Management at Peleton

Peleton has had phenomenal growth. Yes, they've had recent stock issues, but revenue is still growing quickly - 120% growth in 2021 to over $4 billion. Betina will share the story of how they managed their team growth during continuous accelerated growth at UXDX USA in May.

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