This week we look at the Design-Dev handover, BBC serverless journey and the art of product management and more.
Enabling the Team
Work is Work by Coda Hale
Coda goes through the mathematics of why things get harder as you scale along with the key ways you can fight back (hint: independent, empowered, product teams)
10 Elements Of A Self-Managing Company by Joost Minnaar
P4Q adopted a new approach and decentralised decision-making. Their handbook aims to develop a future-proof organisation using self-management as a tool.
Product Direction
The DAU/MAU metric shows the ratio of your daily active users over your monthly users, in a percentage. A score of 20% is good, but here's when it's not useful.
The Art of Product Management by Ken Norton
It's all too easy to dismiss the soft skills of product management. Learn six Cs to bolster your human skills and complement the scientific aspects of your job.
Continuous Discovery
Where Data Falls Short by Corina Paraschiv
Quantitative and qualitative data can be merged to examine complex topics. It is valuable to examine their shortcomings to understand how best to combine them.
Research Questions Are Not Interview Questions by Erika Hall
Start with the research objective, then identify the best way to solve that question, which might not be an interview. Finally, create your interview questions.
Continuous Design
Prepare For Hand-off! How To Nail That Development Support? by Yana Mladenova
Dive into some of the most common pitfalls during the designer-developer hand-off and review some strategies you could adopt to nail development support.
The Hook Model- How design can hack your brain by Josep Ferrer
The Hook Model is a four-phase process that businesses can use to instil habits in their users and engage their attention frequently. It starts with a trigger.
Continuous Delivery
BBC Online — A year with serverless by Johnathan Ishmael
Using serverless reduces the time spent on engineering the fundamentals of your platform, allowing you to focus on the value you deliver to your customers.
Transitional Architecture by Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, & James Lewis
To allow the interplay between legacy and new, we need to build and evolve Transitional Architecture that supports collaboration as it changes over time.
Modern development requires consuming dozens if not hundreds of other modules. But these modules represent vulnerabilities for your code. With recent high profile issues like the log4j attack and node package poisoning, there is a need for companies to know what modules they are using and how to secure their supply chain. Feross will be sharing the challenges and solutions to this problem at UXDX USA.
Conferences
UXDX USA | 24 - 26 May
UXDX APAC | 22-24 June
UXDX EMEA | 12-14 Oct
Community Events
UXDX Community Europe East | 21 Apr
UXDX Community Nordics | 28 Apr
UXDX USA | 24 - 26 May
UXDX APAC | 22-24 June
UXDX EMEA | 12-14 Oct
Community Events
UXDX Community Europe East | 21 Apr
UXDX Community Nordics | 28 Apr
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