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#LeanUXmas Day 24: “Engineering Managers do Triage Work. Do we know this?” by @grimalkina

https://t.co/X1qRlj8XCg

“I think we’re fundamentally failing to prepare engineering managers to handle the sociocognitive work of triage.”

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Day 23: “Transformation Fail” by @cagan

https://t.co/MfSuI0k0mc

“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.”

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#LeanUXmas Day 22: “Changing How We Change In The Public Sector” by Audree Fletcher

https://t.co/g2XhaWaI0A

“But where programmes are implemented in order to create a service, or transform a service, this programmatic approach carries a cost.”

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#LeanUXmas Day 21: “Do You Really Need A Repository?” by @EDFerr2

https://t.co/FuQYTgmJIq

“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.”

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#LeanUXmas Day 20: “Can You Create An Evidence-Guided Roadmap?” by @ItamarGilad

https://t.co/2om10GUCIO

“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”

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#LeanUXmas Day 19: “The Art of Communication Design” by @mseckington

https://t.co/3M4q1sYwRx

“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.”

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#LeanUXmas Day 18: “The Elusive High Performing Team” by Judy Graham

https://t.co/Fg7gBLcWh7

“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”

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#LeanUXmas Day 17: “Cross Functional-Collaboration: Challenges and Strategies for Success” by Tim Neusesser

https://t.co/hwbHqp5SfU

“they serve as a starting point to raise awareness and support the development of customized approaches tailored to each unique circumstance.”

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#LeanUXmas Day 16: “How To Communicate When Trust Is Low” by @mipsytipsy

https://t.co/coDiHhayDK

“When a relationship has very little trust, you tend to interpret everything someone says in the worst possible light”

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#LeanUXmas Day 15: “Team Memory, Organisational Sharing and Serendipity in Distributed Workplaces” by @ewebber

https://t.co/hUWdXOTqw5

“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”

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#LeanUXmas Day 14: “Using Research Ops to ignite your Continuous Discovery Practice” by Julian Della Mattia

https://t.co/e6qhybp8Ws

“To drive effective Continuous Discovery and ignite the engine of product discovery, organizations need the right infrastructure.”

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#LeanUXmas Day 13: “Streamlining Decisions: A Framework” by Francesca Cortesi

https://t.co/qExtxzCljf

“how can I get clarity about who is the decision maker, who will bear the consequences, and who knows most about the problem?”

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#LeanUXmas Day 12: “Measuring The User Experience” by Tomer Sharon

https://t.co/kOqs4lXm3Z

“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.”

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#LeanUXmas Day 11: “The Power Of Cross-Disciplinary Learning” by @loomista

https://t.co/SukKmsmE33

“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”

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#LeanUXmas Day 10: “User Models for Product Work” by @davesresearch

https://t.co/f1ktb87GB3

“start by structuring internal knowledge — to see if there’s really a productive pathway forward for external research in a given domain”

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#LeanUXmas Day 9: “Best Practices are Useless in Complex Systems” by @jbriselli

https://t.co/zeNCMRz8qP

“When you find yourself trying to solve isolated problems instead of managing the holistic mess, ditch best practices and embrace context-specific emergent practices”

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#Lean UXmas Day 8: “Thoughts On A Research Democracy” by Carolyn Morgan

https://t.co/ofDeu9AEry

“I am asking: what is the end state we seek to achieve? Is it a “democracy,” or something else?”

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#LeanUXmas Day 7: “OKRs And User Story Mapping” by @jboogie

https://t.co/4KtYH1ejJ4

"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"

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#LeanUXmas Day 6: “What Is The Return On Investing In Information Architecture?” by @Abby_the_IA

https://t.co/isEfdHAEka

"don’t be surprised when your investment and verbalizing of IA work spreads like wildfire to other people and teams"