The Main Thing: Another framework

Does the world need more agile frameworks? Considering we created a new one we think so.

When we were looking into ways of working at UXDX we started with the data: 90% of features fail to deliver the expected benefit. This led to our first principle: We don’t know what customers want. Teams need end-to-end ownership from idea to satisfied customers to be able to iterate on the solutions they build.

But quick iteration requires quick releases, and as anyone with enterprise experience knows things slow down as you scale. The delays due to dependencies and sign-offs grow exponentially with company size. This led to our second principle: you can’t manage dependencies, you must remove them.

The final thing that really influenced the framework is how busy people are. While some people love to dig into process and find optimal ways of working, most people don’t. They want to focus on building their businesses. That’s why we decided to make the framework more detailed and opinionated than other frameworks. We don’t want to leave the hard decisions up to the companies.

This Weeks Updates

Enabling the Team

Is The Party Over For Scrum Masters And Agile Coaches? by Hrishikesh Karekar
Capital One eliminated 1,100 agile positions and Freddie Mac let go of 75 Scrum Masters. Hrishikesh argues the role is important but many are just not good coaches.

Good Product Coach / Bad Product Coach by Marty Cagan
Good coaches have relevant experience, boundaries of credibility ask good questions, develop others, are business savvy and more.

Product Direction

Revenue Isn’t Everyone’s Goal by Jeff Gothelf
An OKR shortcut is to give everyone revenue goals. But often teams are too far removed from revenue to make a direct impact.

The 3 Key Jobs Of A Product Manager by Ami Vora
Ami shares how she moved from thinking of a PM as defining what teams work on to a collaborative role that works with the team to discovery, design and deliver.

Continuous Discovery

Mastering Qualitative Research Analysis for Product Managers by Go Practice
Learn how to select the right techniques, draw accurate conclusions, and leverage insights to drive product success.

Rethinking Personas: Empathy and Inclusion in UX Design by Letitia Rohaise
By using more inclusive methods like Jobs-To-Be-Done and Empathy Maps, we can ensure a better understanding of the diverse user needs to create better products.

Continuous Design

Product Design Is Lost by Rune Madsen
By making design a checklist that is to be performed, and by failing to integrate fully with engineering design has failed to live up to its promise.

How Monzo Does Assumption Testing by Rosie Hoggmascall
Rosie does a deep dive into the tactics and user research that delivered PLG and helps Monzo grow into the UK’s 7th largest bank.

Continuous Delivery

React, Solid, htmx by Bobae Kang
While React is enabling developers to do more on the front end there is a new breed of frameworks that promote simple frontends and reduce complexity.

React's Evolution From Hooks To Concurrent React by Tiger Abrodi
Tiger shares the challenges introduced with Hooks and how React's new concurrent approach solves them, but also how much additional complexity they add.

UXDX USA

We’ve just finished our UXDX USA 2024 event in New York and it was phenomenal ! Over 500 product people joined us for a jam-packed week of talks, workshops, learning, networking and offsite experiences. We are honored to have shared this experience with so many and we’ll share photos and highlights shortly.

But the fun never stops. We’ve just announced the draft agenda for our EMEA event for October! We’ll be announcing new speakers every week over the summer. See you all in Dublin!

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Job of the Week

Senior Product Manager
🏬 IBM
📌 Lowell, MA, US

About IBM
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The Results of Last Week’s Poll

The question was: What are your thoughts on frameworks?

It looks like this one struck a chord - it was the most voted on poll that we’ve done. While the results were pretty even across the three categories I was actually most surprised by people saying they love their current framework! I just haven’t heard people say that much before… I think we’ll be diving deeper on these topics over the coming months.