This week, we examine adaptable organisational models with real-world applications. We follow an engineer's journey up and down the org chart, discuss customer journey mapping, and look at how to collaborate after you’ve adopted product-based funding. Finally, in less than two weeks, we'll join our partners for knowledge sharing and inspiration sessions in New York. Don't miss out on these thought-provoking industry debates, led by tech experts from around the world.
Enabling the Team
10 Progressive Organisational Structures Developed By Real Companies by Joost Minnaar
From chains to honeycombs, we look at ten adaptable organisational models, tried and tested in the real world.
Untangling Organisational Dependencies by Chris Combe
Autonomous teams cannot effectively collaborate across the organisation every time a piece of work is required, especially when the teams aren’t aligned into a value stream with predictable communication channels. Chris offers a viable approach to collaboration after you’ve adopted product-based funding.
Product Direction
A Portfolio of Bets by John Cutler
Early on you don't have much of a bet portfolio. As you grow, you diversify. The question is whether you balance your portfolio or let the competition do this.
Since product-led products enable users to discover, try, and buy products day or night, the standard “sales funnel” is no longer accurate.
Continuous Discovery
Before beginning a journey-mapping initiative, teams decide between a current-state or future-state map, and an assumption-first or research-first approach.
Understand your users, develop a market segmentation plan, position your product, and create a value proposition.
Continuous Design
Competing Designs, Better Design Podcast by Steven Sinofsky
If you’ve lived through competing designs, then you also know this is a horrible way to innovate and it is odd that such a process persists.
Virtual Communication Curbs Creative Idea Generation by Melanie S. Brucks & Jonathan Levav
An examination of how a shift away from in-person interaction affects innovation, which relies on collaborative idea generation as the foundation of progress.
Continuous Delivery
Using #NoEstimates Strategically by Stuart Arthur
We look at how working with clients strategically enabled Stuart's team to better understand priorities and budget constraints, and deliver continuous value.
From Early Employee to Technical Founder: Essential Career Lessons for Engineers by First Round Review
Amber Feng guides other engineers as they weigh up their next career move, leaning on the frameworks and lessons she’s pulled in from her own career.
Content designers are often underappreciated, yet they harness unique talents and skills that can have an added impact to the success of your products and organisation. So in the current state of affairs, how can you ensure that content design is given a seat at the table as well as the opportunity for success? Erica will talk through how to elevate content design to its rightful place in the UX and design landscape.
Meet us in New York in two week's time to network with high profile speakers like Erica.
Do you have a great case study that highlights how you have adopted a new practice, tool or technique?
Do you want to share the challenges as well as the successes?
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