Funding And Governing Empowered Teams

Long-lived, empowered teams are expensive. Instead of having a business case that has clear costs and benefits, long-lived teams require companies to place a lot of trust in these teams.

We need to create a business case to justify the expense. Costs are easy to calculate but we can’t specify exactly what the teams will build. Instead we need to define clear metrics for each team and then track them on delivery of those metrics (with a little complication around when teams are first set up.

I go into more detail in this weeks article on Funding and Governing Empowered Teams below.

This Week’s Updates

Enabling the Team

The Product Model and Org Design by Marty Cagan
Marty explains that org design is separate to good product practices and more to do with the product suite and goals.

Funding and Governing Empowered Teams by Rory Madden
Long-lived, empowered teams are expensive. Rory shares how you can fund and govern teams around your product strategy.

Product Direction

CPO Burnout by Richard Mironov
Most of the CPOs Rich knows are unhappy, frustrated, burnt out. Sales trumping product strategy and constant firefighting has people exhausted.

Are Your Expectations Toward Your PMs High Enough? by Petra Wille
Product leaders shape the standards for their teams but to often are not setting high enough standards. (I thought this complemented the burnout article well)

Continuous Discovery

You’re Not Just Solving User Problems by Itamar Gilad
Why solely focusing on solving user problems is limiting you, and annoying your colleagues, managers, and customers.

The UX Job Crisis: Is This the End or a New Beginning? by Christoper Nguyen
Understand how AI is driving innovation, enhancing user experiences, and creating new possibilities and what this means for the future of UX design jobs.

Continuous Design

Onboarding for Active Users by Jon Yablonski
Onboarding should be designed with active users in mind, making guidance accessible throughout the product experience.

UI Density by Matthew Strom
Designing for UI density goes beyond the visual aspects of an interface. It includes all the implicit and explicit design decisions we make.

Continuous Delivery

The Frontend Treadmill by Marco Rogers
If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make.

The Journey of Modernization: Lessons Learned from a Fragmented Architecture by go-fireball
While serverless computing and Function-as-a-Service offer significant benefits, they also introduce challenges that must be carefully managed.

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Video of the Week: Getting Stakeholder Buy In

Rory sat down with Richard Rodger to discuss the biggest problem in Developer Relations: which is about getting companies to buy-in to investing in the UX of API design and support. Richard shares some really interesting insights into how onboarding falls between the cracks of sales, customer success and development teams. Some great insights👇👇

Job of the Week

Senior User Experience Designer
Three Ireland
📌 Dublin

About Three
Three Ireland is a major telecommunications provider in Ireland, offering mobile and broadband services throughout Ireland.

See role details here

The Results of Last Week’s Poll

The question was: Do you have visibility of the end-to-end business process for the product you are working on?

40% of people work in teams that deliver outputs, with an additional 24% working where Product and Design deliver outcomes but then handover to Dev teams to deliver the outputs.

Just 19% of people work in teams that are responsible for outcomes.

The unfortunate truth of product development is that 90% of features fail to deliver the expected business value. I think over time we will see those numbers change. In the meantime, we’ll keep trying to fight the good fight 😀