UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. But in my new Agile team, I was designing fragments that felt incomplete.

Agile 92

Agile Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing 92

Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. In 2011 we raised money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

Feedback Software 59

Feedback Software Weak Development Team Customer Communications Customer Experience 59

Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Back in 2011, Luke Hohmann introduced me to this concept and technique, and I used it with success with a team I was working with at the time. Thanks, Luke!

Weak Development Team 53

Weak Development Team Differentiation Software Review Customer Experience 53

The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

Weak Development Team 85

Weak Development Team Research Software Customer Experience Leadership 85

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. This is when companies started applying consumer PM principles to software PM. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. There was no-one in the middle to ‘ translate ’.

Reporting Tools 176

Reporting Tools Product Management Product Manager User Testing 176

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

Reporting Tools 183

Reporting Tools Transportation Travel Data Visualization 183

Mixpanel

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sometimes teams fall short of getting pipelines tied together and running, sure. Developing systems for a diverse group of stakeholders to consume the same data is no small task; it’s a journey. Ryan Dahl, the creator of node.js, said it best in his 2011 rant: “I hate almost all software. Spectacularly.

Data Visualization 59

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Weak Development Team 59