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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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: i
Read edition ↗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 lin
Read edition ↗This week we look at coaching versus mentoring, testing multiple hypotheses, accessible design systems and more. Enabling the Team What Stops People on Your Team from Leaving? by Sabina Nawaz A lot of news focuses on the people leaving but Sabina focuses on what makes people stay
Read edition ↗This week we look at Spotify's podcast strategy, finding research interviewees and Github's approach to retros. Enabling the Team A Guide To Modern Retros: How To Host Valuable Project Post-mortems by Alison Harshbarger Are your project post-mortems are valuable? Start with trust
Read edition ↗This week we look at Dropping budgets, Amazon's ad strategy, Micro-frontends and Value before Usability. Enabling the Team Managers Can’t Do It All by Diane Gherson and Lynda Gratton With the flattening of organisations, companies are splitting traditional management roles into t
Read edition ↗This week we look at when to use OKRs, measuring transformation and the tech behind Tinder. Enabling the Team Are You Sure You Want to Use OKRs? by Christina Wodtke Everyone writes about OKR's but Christina is the definitive source. In this article, she shares the biggest mistake
Read edition ↗This week we look at team responsibilities, UX in public service, platform products and a thought experiment. Enabling the Team Who’s Responsible for What in the Product Trio? by Teresa Torres In traditional organisations, people have separate areas of responsibility and accounta
Read edition ↗This week we look at dual-track agile, transformation metrics, experience vision and CUPID development (we missed Valentine's day by 1 day!) Enabling the Team How Autodesk implemented Dual-Track Agile by Rory Madden A case study on how the Autodesk design team conflicted with the
Read edition ↗This week we look at what you should learn from the Spotify Model, PM accountability, and an argument against product teams. Enabling the Team The Top 3 Points You Should Have Paid Attention To In The Spotify Engineering Culture Videos by Jason Yip Self-management isn't 'no struc
Read edition ↗This week we look at focusing on alternatives, not competitors, image accessibility and becoming self-managing Enabling the Team How to Become A Self-Managing Team by Pim de Morree Self-management isn't 'no structure' - it's a different structure. Distribute responsibilities, dec
Read edition ↗This week we look at why everyone needs a coach, how PMs spot trends, the flaws in design systems, and architecture intent. Enabling the Team Everyone Needs A Coach by Kate Leto and Barry O'Reilly Consultants solve problems, Mentors give advice and assistance but Coaches help us
Read edition ↗This week we look at the first 90 days as a PM, democratising data analytics, measuring DesignOps and smart contracts without blockchain. Enabling the Team Doerr's Law on Product Teams by Al Tenhundfeld Confusion continues in teams about the difference between PM and UX responsib
Read edition ↗This week we look at why PowerPoint is useless, 16 Product Strategies for Growth and Pixar's Design Critique Approach Enabling the Team PM and UX Have Markedly Different Views of Their Job Responsibilities by Kara Pernice and Raluca Budiu Confusion continues in teams about the di
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