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✨What's the point of product management, anyway?
Covering the basics of 🎯 outcome-oriented teams, why we need product management and 😇 what PMs actually do. Delivered to an audience of civil servants in November 2021, thanks to the support of the fantastic 💙 Government Digital Service. # Topics 00:00 – Introduction 03:31 – "We just can't predict" 09:54 – Four dimensional fit 17:30 – Outcome-oriented teams 28:28 – Life without a PM 32:01 – The product role # Further reading & viewing * On the legend that is Bob Ross: 📄 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross * On control-oriented vs. outcome-oriented organisations: 📄 https://swardley.medium.com/how-organisations-are-changing-cf80f3e2300 * On our inability to predict: 📚 "The Black Swan" by NNT, 📚 "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. * On product management basics: 📚 "Inspired" by Marty Cagan. 📚 "Working Backwards" by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr. * On Agile vs. outcome-oriented: 🎥 Owning Agile by Jeff Patton (https://www.mindtheproduct.com/owning-agile-by-jeff-patton/) * On PM attribute 1 – "leading with context": 📚 "No Rules Rules" by Reed Hastings. * On PM attribute 2 – "systems thinking": 📚 "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows. * On PM attribute 3 – "merchant of ideas": 📚 "Ogilvy on Advertising" by David Ogilvy.
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Keeping Things Organized
Scaling the Microsoft Teams Component Libraries (TCL) in Figma
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The Gap
Creating fantastic websites and applications is truly a delight. And when such products come together, it is a humbling experience.
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Interactive CSS Grid Generator
Quickly design web layouts, and get HTML and CSS code. Learn CSS Grid visually build web layouts with our interactive CSS Grid Generator.
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The vanishing designer. UX design in the age of… | by Chuánqí Sun | Jul, 2021 | UX Collective
UX design in the age of standardization.
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Paste's Path to a Transparent Package Categorization System
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A typographer and designer’s guide to elegance
Every piece of Ayaka B. Ito's portfolio is considered. No subhead is overlooked, no hover state left to chance. Every color complements its individual project. Every piece of text is carefully kerned.
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Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals
“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.
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Supply.Family - Market for Creatives
Download curated design assets as mockups, fonts, graphics, templates and much more. Supply.Family is a curated marketplace for creatives.
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The branding style guidelines documents archive
Welcome to the brand design manual documents directory. Search over our worldwide style assets handpicked collection, access to PDF documents for inspiration.