#LeanUXmas Day 6: “What Is The Return On Investing In Information Architecture?” by Abby Covert 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/735914425… "don’t be surprised when your investment and verbalizing of IA work spreads like wildfire to other people and teams"

#LeanUXmas Day 7: “OKRs And User Story Mapping” by Jeff Gothelf 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736005029… "By definition, story maps are user-centric … Filtering the desired behaviors through a strategic lens then empowers a team to make choices about where their releases will focus initially"

#Lean UXmas Day 8: “Thoughts On A Research Democracy” by Carolyn Morgan 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736095645… “I am asking: what is the end state we seek to achieve? Is it a “democracy,” or something else?”

#LeanUXmas Day 9: “Best Practices are Useless in Complex Systems” by Jen Briselli 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736186208… “When you find yourself trying to solve isolated problems instead of managing the holistic mess, ditch best practices and embrace context-specific emergent practices”

#LeanUXmas Day 10: “User Models for Product Work” by @davesresearch 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736276809… “start by structuring internal knowledge — to see if there’s really a productive pathway forward for external research in a given domain”

#LeanUXmas Day 11: “The Power Of Cross-Disciplinary Learning” by @loomista 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736367406… “What is cross-disciplinary learning? Put simply, it's the ability to learn from diverse sources outside of your own field of work and apply that knowledge to your own situation”

#LeanUXmas Day 12: “Measuring The User Experience” by Tomer Sharon 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736458052… “Dashboards aren’t clear, and there’s no clear answer to this question and so teams focus on detailed metrics rather than high-level metrics.”

#LeanUXmas Day 13: “Streamlining Decisions: A Framework” by Francesca Cortesi 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736548582… “how can I get clarity about who is the decision maker, who will bear the consequences, and who knows most about the problem?”

#LeanUXmas Day 14: “Using Research Ops to ignite your Continuous Discovery Practice” by Julian Della Mattia 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736639218… “To drive effective Continuous Discovery and ignite the engine of product discovery, organizations need the right infrastructure.”

#LeanUXmas Day 15: “Team Memory, Organisational Sharing and Serendipity in Distributed Workplaces” by Emily Webber 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736729770… “How do we know what’s going on when we’re working in remote or hybrid organisations? How do we get the right information to the right people”

#LeanUXmas Day 16: “How To Communicate When Trust Is Low” by Charity Majors 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736820364… “When a relationship has very little trust, you tend to interpret everything someone says in the worst possible light”

#LeanUXmas Day 17: “Cross Functional-Collaboration: Challenges and Strategies for Success” by Tim Neusesser 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/736911020… “they serve as a starting point to raise awareness and support the development of customized approaches tailored to each unique circumstance.”

#LeanUXmas Day 18: “The Elusive High Performing Team” by Judy Graham 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/737001608… “what held back other teams from reaching the same level and how we purposefully worked with a couple of teams […] to really help them become that highly engaged and happy team”

#LeanUXmas Day 19: “The Art of Communication Design” by Melinda Seckington 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/737092204… “Sometimes you need to take the time to understand what it is you want to get across, so that you can design whether it will have the right impact.”

#LeanUXmas Day 20: “Can You Create An Evidence-Guided Roadmap?” by Itamar Gilad 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/737182737… “The problem is most of the existing roadmaps are not in this state. They’re in early confidence states. They’re mostly based on opinions and what I call anecdotal evidence”

#LeanUXmas Day 21: “Do You Really Need A Repository?” by EmilyDiLeo 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/737273363… “In many cases, these teams don’t actually need a repository (yet). They need to get their own house in order by applying principles of knowledge management.”

#LeanUXmas Day 22: “Changing How We Change In The Public Sector” by Audree Fletcher 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/737363984… “But where programmes are implemented in order to create a service, or transform a service, this programmatic approach carries a cost.”

Day 23: “Transformation Fail” by Marty Cagan 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/737454612… “It is an open secret that the vast majority of attempted digital transformations fail. Companies spend millions of dollars and years of effort, yet fail to make meaningful change.”

#LeanUXmas Day 24: “Engineering Managers do Triage Work. Do we know this?” by Dr. Cat Hicks | grimalkina.bsky.social 2023.leanuxmas.com/post/737545146… “I think we’re fundamentally failing to prepare engineering managers to handle the sociocognitive work of triage.”

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