Insights on Product Development

Clarifying the role and responsibilities of the Product Manager

Reviewing the different product manager configurations in companies to identify the challenges and clarify the responsibilities of the role.

Want to Attend UXDX EMEA 2022? Convince Your Boss

Want to attend but don't know how to ask your boss? You're in luck! We've created a handy template for you!

UXDX USA 2022 Trends: Ensure your research lands

How do you ensure that your research doesn't just end up on a shelf? Here are three tips to ensure your research delivers an impact.

UXDX Arrives in New York!

UXDX USA takes place in New York. Here are 10 things to look forward to.

Building better teams with a simple thought experiment

What kind of team would we want if we did not know what roles we would play in the team?

How DAZN scaled their team using Microfrontends

A case study on how DAZN scaled their frontend teams using microfrontends.

Shifting an Agribusiness to Direct to Consumer

How Kimmus Kitchen, an Indian agribusiness, pivoted their product strategy to direct-to-consumer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Digital Transformation Story Within The U.S. DoD: The World's Largest Bureaucracy

How the U.S. Air Force approached their agile transformation to shift from a lead time of 10+ years to 120 days.

How to Measure Efficiency in Software Development

Time and cost metrics lead to inefficient software delivery. Using lean manufacturing as the inspiration, teams have shifted to throughput metrics to track and improve efficiency.

Integrating UX into SAFe

UX Research helps drive your teams to build a market-ready product your customers will love. Read about Marc's tips on how to infuse customer feedback and UX Design into Agile in a SAFe environment.

How do you justify investing in UX?

The traditional answer of gathering data to convince stakeholders doesn't work. Use this UX toolkit to uncover the business pain points and get their buy-in for adopting UX.

Convincing Your Boss

So you want to attend UXDX but you don’t know how to get your boss onside? We have composed a guide to help prepare you to ask your boss. We even drafted a sample email to send them!

How To Deal With Business Hyper-Growth

Quipper Engineering Manager, Kristine Joy Paas, shares her advice for dealing with the sudden growth of a customer base.

Top 5 Tips To Establishing Design Sprints

Jasper Wu, Chief Experience Officer at U-Next, will deliver a talk at UXDX APAC on March 4th titled 'Creating A CX Culture Through Sprints'. Find out more on Jasper's UXDX Profile [https://uxdx.com/profile/jasper-wu] or buy tickets now at: https://uxdx.com/apac/2021/tickets When working in the USA, I learned the practice of Design Sprints and found it to be a hugely useful tool to validate the concept with fast and decisive speed. When coming to work in U-Next as a CXO in Japan, I wanted to b

Top Tips for Growing a Product Design Team

Aditi Kulkarni, UX Manager for Money & Channels at Shopify, shares her top tips for scaling a Product Design Team successfully!

The Biggest Challenge - Our Focus for 2021

Like nearly everyone else I'm planning out my personal and professional goals for 2020. On the personal front, my goals are pretty standard - get fit, lose weight, travel etc. Covid has impacted all three of those in 2020 but I'm optimistic about the vaccine rollouts. On the professional side, my mission is to help companies shift from building software through projects to building autonomous product teams. The economist Carlota Perez has done some great work on historical disruptions (industr

Lessons learned from 300+ conference talks

Lessons learned on how to give an engaging and highly rated talk from analysing over 300 talks at UXDX.

Making Product Delivery More Sustainable

To make product delivery more sustainable we need to shift from "predictability" metrics of time and cost to "sustainability" metrics.

My 13 lessons for leaders when facing remote team management 💻🎯

How can leaders adapt to the new reality of remote working? Here are 13 tips for team leaders from from the Gitlab team, who have been remote for years.

Becoming Data Informed

How you can use the DIBBs model to empower autonomous teams and help them to become more data informed.

How to get the most out of a virtual event?

With the move to virtual events find out how to get the most out of these events from networking, knowledge gathering and knowledge sharing.

A sneak preview of our first UXDX 2020 Speakers

Introducing the first our our 50+ speakers who will be sharing their knowledge, insights and best practices in product development at UXDX 2020

“User centered design is obsolete”

User Centered Design is just not enough anymore. Our designs can have impacts far wider than just our users so we need to factor in the full ecosystem when assessing the effectiveness of our work.

10 of the Best Ways to Experience Dublin

Thousand of international attendees will make their way to Dublin on 7-8 October for our fourth annual conference [https://uxdxconf.com/]. To help you get the most out of your experience, we’ve shortlisted some fun activities you should try while visiting the Irish capital. The city is known for its colourful buildings, charming streets, historic architecture and live music. Here’s what you shouldn't miss: Dublin Walking Tour Source: PexelsDublin is the perfect city size to get almost everywh

Governing Product Teams

The traditional governance processes work against the efficiency of software delivery. For such an integral part of business today we need a better way of governing software delivery.

Breaking down complex problems

Breaking down complex problems is one of the most critical skills required for modern product development. How do you validate an idea before investing too much time and effort?

How to Successfully Implement the Jobs to be Done Theory

Alan Clement, author of When Coffee and Kale collide, shares his insights on how to implement the Jobs to be Done Framework.

The Evolution of Software Delivery

What is THE agile process? What is the difference between projects and products? Learn about the principles and assumptions that underpin software delivery and how they've changed over time.

How to Empower Women in Tech

Rashi Khurana, VP of Engineering at Shutterstock, talks stereotypes, ways of supporting women and what companies can do.

Why do projects get slower over time? Part 3

As you scale, products become more complex, alignment becomes more difficult and dependencies can slow things down. Product teams solve all of these issues.

How to Transition to Data-Enabled Design

Eva Deckers, Design Director at Philips Design, discusses why the future of design is making data and artificial intelligence part of the creative process

Why do projects get slower over time? Part 2

Projects are incentivised to deliver now which leads to cutting corners and increasing complexity. The resulting debt causes delivery to slow down to a crawl over time.

Saying No to Features

Alice Newton-Rex, Chief Product Officer of WorldRemit, explains how she reached to the conclusion that learning how to say no to features is the secret to successfully growing a product.

Rashi Khurana, VP of Engineering at Shutterstock, on How She Became an Engineer and How She Manages Fast-growing Dev Teams

Rashi shares with us how she manages successful cross-functional teams and balances delivery with upskilling.

Product development is unpredictable

Our project delivery processes are built around predictability. But software development is unpredictable. How can teams move away from the constraints of current processes to build products that customers really love.

A bad system beats a good person every time

Strict scope management is hurting more than it is helping. Being flexible, where it makes sense, will deliver better products and happier teams.

10 Insightful Quotes by UXDX Speakers

Organisational change starts with a personal motivation for change. We’ve selected 10 quotes from some of our most engaging speakers at UXDX and on how they’re changing the product delivery processes at their organisations. 1. Tony Grout, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Alfresco: > “Always make sure you’re optimising for the flow of work through the teams. This might mean some teams might need to be slower. It’s not about one team moving fast, but for all teams delivering value” Click

What to Expect at UXDX 2019

For those of you who have never attended one of our events before, our aim for UXDX Conf is to bridge the gap between UX, UI, Dev and Product and help teams transition to user-outcome driven development. We know that in order to break down dated established practices, you need the appetite for change followed by both top down and bottom up support. That’s why we gather speakers from the world's leading tech companies to share how they’re aligning their product teams across their organisations an

5 Steps to Improve Agility at Scale

Was the agile manifesto made for fast-growing teams and scale-ups? Tony Grout gave a great talk at UXDX2018 on how to improve agility at scale.

Developer Experience: UXDX Community Trends

We explore the best practices in software delivery while keeping a focus on the outcomes that the product is trying to achieve.

Product Vision: UXDX Community Trends

The vision process is where teams spend time understanding the problem, ideating on solutions and defining the high level experimentation roadmap for delivery.

Agile Transformation: UXDX Community Trends

What is the formula for making an organisation agile? Trust, Purpose and Alignment. Easy! Advice from UXDX Community 2018 sessions.