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This Weeks Updates

Enabling the Team

The Power of Simplicity: A Simple Management Formula To Wild Success by Joost Minnaar . 40,000 employees, $5.5 billion in revenue and a simple management approach: hire smart people, share rewards with everyone and let go.

Overcoming Digital Transformation’s Major Challenges by Nagarajan Chakravarthy (Naga) . There are lots of reasons why digital transformations fail. Here are 6 ways to try to improve your odds of success.

Product Direction

Product Managers vs Product Leaders by Marty Cagan . How we name roles is misleading but they are industry standards. Marty discusses what he thinks each role should do.

Ask Teresa (and the Community): What Do You Do With Stakeholder Feature Requests? by Teresa Torres . Learn how to handle stakeholder feature requests that don’t relate to your current outcome or discovery efforts.

Continuous Discovery

User Research x Product Teams: How to Build a Stronger Partnership by Nikki Anderson, MA . Working closely with product managers, designers, and developers not only enhances the user experience but also sets the foundation for user research growth.

Getting user-centred design work into agile planning increments by Vicky Teinaki . Practical tips on how to stop fighting the ways that teams work and figure out how to work with them.

Continuous Design

Story Mapping: The Game-Changer in UX Design by Eduardo Feo . Eduardo gives an overview of user story mapping and how it can help you visualise the big picture, stay user-focused, spot gaps and prioritise features.

Tell Better Stories by Jeremy Connell-Waite . Not sure if this is a trend but loving the shift from blog post to a dedicated site. Learn the skills to tell better stories.

Continuous Delivery

Event Streaming: Tips for Event-Driven Apps by Capital One Tech Event. Streaming gives apps the ability to observe, record and react to events in real-time. Here are 3 tips to get you started.

Serverless and Agile by Benjamen Pyle . Serverless and Agile are the perfect combination for delighting customers, empowering people and leveraging modern technology.

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