UXDX Community:Netherlands

Product teams come in all shapes and forms. Ensuring their success is a difficult exercise that can’t be simplified to a few action points and guardrails.
In this talk, we’ll dive into the WeTransfer organization, understanding where it comes from and where it is now.
We’ll then examine one of its successful teams, through a case study.
We’ll cover how the cross-functional product team Collect, delivers value through transparency and trust at WeTransfer. We’ll go through tools, communication channels and rituals that made it what it is today.
Finally, since teams don’t exist in a vacuum, we’ll talk about the relationship between the team and the organization at large. What are the dynamics in place, and how they influence each other.

At a time where the whole world had to switch to all-remote work rapidly, let’s talk about the differences of what it means to be a leader for a co-located vs. remote team.
Nadia will tell her story of becoming a team manager and share a few things that remote team-leading has taught her.

The Accelerate book (Forsgren, Humble, Kim) succeeded in providing indications of what makes a high-performance organization, along with insight on the science behind the research. The findings are as valuable as they are unsurprising.
However, while there is a lot of information describing the characteristics and indicators of high performers, the actionable information inside of the Accelerate is limited and focused, still leaving gaps for organizations on their way to achieve high performance.
In this talk, I'll be introducing a baseline for a product development process which can help you on your way towards becoming a high-performance organization. I'll cover three topics:

• Process: how requirements should come into a team
• Architecture: using reactive, event-driven systems with event sourcing to achieve low coupling
  While the presentation will focus on some of the more important aspects of just three major aspects of a product development process, they form a reasonable baseline of a process which can give you a running start on your journey of becoming a high-performance organization.

Working as product teams delivers better results but making the shift involves changing how teams and companies work - and change is hard.

How do we convince people that we have thought through the implications of the changes that we are proposing without getting bogged down in months of analysis, meetings and pointless whiteboard strategising.

In this talk Rory will give an introduction to the UXDX framework, which is the result of years of hands on experience helping teams to make the transition from projects to products.

Do you want to facilitate better debates with your team, develop better strategies and build better products? Start by proving yourself wrong.