Friday's Highlights in Product, UX, Design and Dev ??

Ready to ditch perfection for agile transformation? Curious why Shopify is giving the axe to group meetings? Or maybe you're pondering if OKRs are just KPIs in disguise? Welcome to this Fridays' newsletter, where we're serving up insights faster than you can say 'calendar purge.'

Enabling the Team ??

• Why There’s No Such Thing as Perfect (Agile) Transformation - Petra Wille has some new perspectives on how you can bring about cultural shifts and mindset change through agile transformation.?
• Shopify is Axing All Meetings - Tristan Bove shares how Shopify is axing all meetings involving more than two people in a remote work ‘calendar purge’ that the company itself calls ‘fast and chaotic’.

Product Direction ??

• OKRs Are Hard -? Camille Fournier sees a lot of bad Objectives and Key Results. Usually they are just KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) given the OKR name.?
• Declaring Goal Bankruptcy by Jeff Gothelf As you kick off a new year, consider declaring bankruptcy on all of your existing goals. Delete them.?

Continuous Discovery ???

• How To Design and Run JTBD Research Interviews: Guide and Templates by Oleg Yakubenkov For a thoughtful approach to product growth, it’s critical to know the tasks and contexts that create the jobs-to-be-done (JTBDs) handled by your product.
• How Good are ChatGPT’s UX Writing Skills? by Deniz Can Demir A test and analysis of ChatGPT’s UX Writing skills, its responses, and a demonstration of how it should be conducted.

Continuous Design ??

• The State Of Usability In 2023 ?- Vitaly Friedman shares some observations from real usability testing on what people do and what they don’t do on the web. From disabled copy-paste to magic link sign-in.
• The State of Mobile User Experience by Raluca Budiu Fifteen years from the original iPhone, the quality of mobile UX has stabilized but the lines between the mobile web and native apps are becoming blurrier.

Continuous Delivery ??

• The “End of Programming” Will Look A Lot Like Programming by Ben Kehoe If you had to describe characteristics that drive users away from products, “temperamental and mysterious” system behavior would be high on that list.
• What to Expect from AI in 2023 by Tristan Greene For the 6th year running, we present Neural’s annual AI predictions. 2022 was an incredible year for the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Remember: We're back to 100% live talks for 2023! Plus, we're expanding to two stages for more networking opportunities. Take a look at our agenda.