AI has made building easier.
But building the right thing is still hard.
Ten articles every week on what is happening across product, research, design and engineering. Curated by Rory Madden to help teams decide what to build.
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To empower product teams you need to make changes in six areas simultaneously, because they are interconnected:
Read edition ↗Last week we talked about using a product vision to be able to compare different improvement initiatives. But a vision alone is not enough. Given the complex nature of software development, changes in one area can actually slow down the delivery of software as a whole. This is wh
Read edition ↗There are always lots of things that can be fixed. How do you prioritise among completely separate but equally interesting sounding options?
Read edition ↗In last week's poll, we asked how you address issues that are outside of the team's direct control and pitching either leadership or your peers on the improvements were the two most common answers.
Read edition ↗One of our links this week is about how PM's don't have the ability to shift from outputs to outcomes without C-level support.
Read edition ↗When we were looking into ways of working at UXDX we started with the data: 90% of features fail to deliver the expected benefit. This led to our first principle: We don’t know what customers want. Teams need end-to-end ownership from idea to satisfied customers to be able to ite
Read edition ↗The cycle of people criticising agile methodologies and then others jumping in to say "You're doing it wrong" is so predictable.
Read edition ↗In last week’s newsletter we asked whether you thought apprenticeships were a good way to learn product development skills and 50% agreed, with some really great comments as well.
Read edition ↗As the move towards more cross-functional teams continues there is one big challenge: how do junior people upskill to become valuable contributors on a team?
Read edition ↗This week we've gone with the "bad" theme. We have articles on all the ways that people are doing processes wrong. But, like user error, this is actually a problem with the process and not with the people.
Read edition ↗A few years ago the biggest problem to solve in product development was the gap between developers and operations. New DevOps practices emerged to ensure better collaboration between the teams.
Read edition ↗While benchmarking his system, Andres Freund, a developer at Microsoft, noticed an anomaly that unravelled into a scenario worthy of a cyber espionage thriller.The core of this story focuses on XZ Utils, a seemingly innocuous open-source library for file compression and decompres
Read edition ↗Lots of product jobs were cut last year across the board from product management, research, design and development. Luckily there appears to be signs that the economy had a soft landing and hiring is starting to come back.
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