Ways of working
🤝 Why can’t we all just get along? is good from Agile consultant and network member Emily Webber. It’s all about the dangers of being specialism-focussed at the expense of collaboration and valuable outcomes. Top marks for the supporting illustrations too.
💔 As we once again slide into recession in the UK, budget cuts are inevitable. Unfortunately, Supporting the closure of a team from delivery expert Rachael Shah will be useful for many. Her follow up post advises on how to run a retro once the team has been told it will be disbanded. Also includes a Miro board template.
💚 Design Group Italia has shared a kit to guide designers to make more sustainable decisions. Here’s the supporting blog post which cites the European Commission’s research into the ecodesign of energy-related products which estimates that “over 80% of all product-related environmental impacts are determined during the design phase.” Eighty percent!
👏🏽 Another good and helpful thing: Food for hungry product minds is a collection of good people, podcasts, blogs and newsletters with a product management slant. Pulled together by Simon Waldman who is open to more suggestions.
🙄 Also useful: 10 free Google Chrome extensions and 11 Google Docs tips that claim to save us hours. Tessa (compiler of the latter) also says 25 million people use Google Docs. Interested to know how many of those are workarounds for Word…
📘 Network member Kate Tarling’s book The Service Organization on how to lead and deliver successful services sustainably is available for pre-order here and you can follow Kate here.
📌 And finally, a poster reminding us to start with the problem before working on a solution by the team at DigitalService, Germany. German version here. Print it out, stick it up.
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