Remote is the new normal. It brought with it some benefits, some challenges, and some frustrations. Your company’s growth and teams happiness requires continuing to look for ways to improve and ensuring all voices are heard, even when you can’t be in the same room together. Along with that challenge, breaking down complex problems is […]
What value can a design system bring to your product and team? thoughtbot has been helping to improve products and product teams for more than 18 years. As we’ve learned how to effectively help teams, we’ve uncovered the power of a design system. A design system is a set of interconnected patterns and shared practices […]
What value can a design system bring to your product and team? thoughtbot has been helping to improve products and product teams for more than 18 years. As we’ve learned how to effectively help teams, we’ve uncovered the power of a design system. A design system is a set of interconnected patterns and shared practices […]
Working with entrepreneurs across different industries and skillsets, our principles for getting started on a product stay the same: upfront research and validation. The thoughtbot Design Sprint includes a variety of strategy, collaborative, and fun activities that help you align on the most important elements of your strategy and then translate those into the right […]
Target is holding a virtual product engineering event focused on growing and engaging a global community of product engineers to advance our collective capabilities and future. The event includes tech talks and panels on timely topics like building for the customer experience, data at scale, and web platform engineering among many others. thoughtbot’s COO and […]
thoughtbot has a sound process for upfront validation and research called Discovery Sprints. We use collaborative exercises to brainstorm and drive alignment across a cross-functional team. Once the team is on the same page, the sprint focuses on planning and testing the strongest product roadmap including a clear priority and decisions around design, development, and […]
Mark your 📅 for this upcoming member event! Join thoughtbot and our industry panelists for a discussion on addressing tech debt using Site Reliability Engineering on July 14 at 4pm ET. This is a great event for: Start-up Teams, Founders & Entrepreneurs thinking about scaling their application Engineering leads interested in adopting SRE practices Developers […]
