Cross-Functional #171: New Year - new you!

This Weeks Updates

Enabling the Team

10 Ways to Prove You’re a Strategic Thinker?by Brenda Steinberg and Michael D. Watkins

Want to be more strategic in 2024? Here are some tips on how to demonstrate your strategic skills

Strong Opinions, Weakly Held?by Abraham Thomas

Most people struggle to fully commit to a decision while remaining open to changing it. Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (SOWH) maximise the rate of learning.

Product Direction

Good Goals/Bad Goals?by John Cutler

Ambiguity allows for communication drift and experimentation but too much ambiguity can lack direction. It’s a balancing act.

Product Predictions 2024?by Marty Cagan

Product Managers, PO's, Product Leaders, Product Ops - Marty covers it all in his 2024 predictions.

Continuous Discovery

How to Run Surveys at Every Stage of the Design Cycle?by Maddie Brown

Most UX surveys are administered during the final phase of the design cycle. However, they can be used effectively throughout the design cycle.

Recipe for UX Rapid Research?by Kayla Farrell

Kayla shares an approach they used at Indeed to implement rapid research teams.

Continuous Design

Futureproofing UX in the Age of AI?by Gerren Lamson

Your human-generated guide to boosting your UX team’s ability to build trustworthy and ethical AI-powered experiences.

Five Common Story Mapping Mistakes?by Jeff Patton

Jeff highlights five common challenges that teams encounter when they start story mapping and how you can avoid them.

Continuous Delivery

Souring on Serverless?by Levi Nunnink

Unless you have high traffic the cold start problems with serverless can make your app feel sluggish.

Hexagonal Architecture For Cloud Ecosystems?by Adam Rice

To help manage complexity in the cloud, McDonald’s developers are using Hexagonal Architecture patterns.

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