The Product Model

Cross-Functional #90: This week: We're back in person as New York welcomes UXDX! And this week's look at industry trends

 
We are delighted to be back at our in-person event for the first time in two years: this time in the beautiful and bustling tech capital of New York. We'll be debating all the important elements of creating a brilliant product and culture. Take a look at our must-reads below including a discussion on adaptable leaders, strategic choice chartering, and GraphQL.
 
 
Enabling the Team
It’s Time for a new Social Code Between Bosses and Employees by Eilon Reshef
Over 50% of business owners can’t fill all the roles. While this stems from many factors, often people aren't keen to work in traditional power settings anymore.
The ‘Adaptable Leader’ is the New Holy Grail — Become One, Hire One by First Round 
How to adopt the three most important learner mindsets. The implications of these changes are far-reaching, even though they cost nothing and take little time.
 
 
Product Direction
 
Strategic Choice Chartering by Roger Martin 
There are six elements of successful strategic choice chartering throughout an organisation, and as organizations become bigger and more layered, chartering becomes ever more critical to success.
As PMs, we either apply for roles with a clear scope or an ambiguous scope at a start-up. The interview approach differs for these two scenarios.
Continuous Discovery
 
The Folly of UX Advocacy by Chris Kiess
UX advocacy usually falls somewhere between self-promotion and extreme vanity. We should appeal to a value higher or a value different than UX.
This series of talks speaks to different product professionals to explore how they approach continuous discovery and which tools facilitate this process. This article explores the tools used by Product Manager at Pendo, Steve Cheshire including Calendly, Zoom and Miro.
 
 
Continuous Design
 
Design Guidelines for Selling Products with Multiple Variants by Kim Salazar
Different products should have different listings; product variations should be displayed under a single listing.
The most effective way to have one innovative idea and develop what users are willing to pay for is to follow the UX design thinking process.
Continuous Delivery
 
GraphQL at PayPal: An Adoption Story by Shruti Kapoor
Shruti gives a debriefing of PayPal's GraphQL adoption journey which blossomed from their first checkout experience application.
GraphQL is a Trap? by Marc-André Giroux
Marc-Andre debunks some common concerns people have with GraphQL like performance maintenance costs and how it results in generic graph databases.
 
 
They say change is inevitable; but change during an unprecedented period in history? No one can prepare for that. So as a product leader how can you ensure forward momentum for your organisation and provide alignment at this time?
In this talk, Deepika will talk through her learnings as she built a team charged with tackling the shifting requirements of supply chains platforms and eCommerce in this ever changing environment.
 
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