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Can Flow-Based Development Boost Team Efficiency and Quality?

Testing Our Hypothesis: Results and Learnings

Efficiency is important. But it’s also difficult to measure. How does your team measure efficiency?

Do you base it on perceived productivity, by counting the number of stories finished per sprint? Or maybe on a perception of how busy your team members are, by calculating their idle time? Without question, a team’s perceived efficiency can change based on what criteria you choose to measure.

And that begs the question: which metrics are best suited for indicating a highly efficient team? In this research blog, we explore this essential question.

 

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154 / How to Use AI: Separating the Hype from the Helpful, with Dan Chuparkoff

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Dan Chuparkoff
Keynote Speaker on AI + Innovation

Dan Chuparkoff is a seasoned innovation leader with experience at Google, Atlassian, and McKinsey. The Product Momentum team caught up with him right after his keynote at INDUSTRY Global and talked about how product teams can get beyond the theoretical hype of AI and start zooming in on its immediate potential. His message was clear: … Continued

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Dan Chuparkoff
Keynote Speaker on AI + Innovation

153 / Building Products for Technical Audiences, with Bukky Adebayo and Rye Castillo

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Bukky Adebayo and Rye Castillo
Autodesk, Render

The Product Momentum team continues the series of conversations that we recorded at INDUSTRY Global; in today’s episode, Bukky Adebayo and Rye Castillo join Sean and Sean to talk about the challenges and opportunities that come with building products for technical audiences. Bukky is Chief of Staff, Digital Customer Experience at Autodesk, and Rye is … Continued

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Bukky Adebayo and Rye Castillo
Autodesk, Render

152 / Matt LeMay: The Consequences of Low-Impact Work on Sound Product Management

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Matt LeMay
Product Leader, Author

In this episode of Product Momentum, we share our conversation with Matt LeMay, who had just delivered a keynote at INDUSTRY Global, entitled The Business is Your Business. About Matt LeMay Matt LeMay is an internationally recognized product leader, consultant, and author. His titles include Agile for Everybody, Product Management in Practice, and the soon-to-be-released … Continued

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Matt LeMay
Product Leader, Author

w3 Awards Recognize Product Momentum Podcast with 2024 Gold, Silver

Product Momentum earns Gold for second year in a row; Dave Dame episode takes Silver

November 1, 2024 Rochester, NY. ITXCorp. is proud to announce that Product Momentum, the company’s long-running podcast, picked up Gold and Silver in the 19th annual w3 Awards. The Gold went to the podcast in the “General Series-Interview & Talk” category, and episode 123 with Dave Dame claimed Silver in the “Individual Episodes & Specials-Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” category. This marks the 2nd consecutive year that Product Momentum has been so honored.

With more than 150 episodes, Product Momentum is a community of leaders and learners in the software product development space. Launched in 2018, hosts Sean Flaherty, Paul Gebel, and Sean Murray guide industry thought leaders in product management, user experience, cybersecurity, and general leadership through commuter-length conversations discussing what it’s like to work and thrive in the product industry.

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151 / Helping Individual Contributors Into Management Roles, with Melika Hope

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Melika Hope
Spotify

If you’re a product manager who’s making the transition from individual contributor (IC) to people manager, you not only need to be nailing your job, Melika Hope advises. “You have to be showing up as a leader.” Opportunities for practicing leadership aren’t confined to managerial roles, she adds. ICs can exhibit leader-like traits every day … Continued

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Melika Hope
Spotify

Product Momentum at 150

Reflecting on 150 Episodes of Lessons and Learnings

When you care as much about the industry that you serve as the dedicated podcast team at ITX Corp. does, it shows up in what you produce. These days, we call it marketing.

But when we started Product Momentum in 2018, we called it an experiment. We wanted to see if we could play even a small role in supporting our product community by freely sharing access to the knowledge that is locked up in the brains of many thought leaders.

Now we see it as our mission to entertain, educate, and celebrate the writers, speakers, movers, and makers who fuel a passion for innovation to our growing audience of product managers, UX designers, engineers, and business leaders.

We have been so lucky! Personally, I have been so privileged to record episodes with some of the most inspiring thought leaders in the software product industry. Along this journey, I’ve learned invaluable lessons – lessons that have shaped me deeply as both a leader and a person. As I look back, I feel vulnerable, humbled, and incredibly grateful for the opportunities the product community and my team here ITX have given me.

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Tips and Tricks for AI Prompt Writing According to ITX Research

There is no magic bullet to making AI chatbots (aka Large Language Models[1]) perfectly accurate. Even if you follow our guide on Best AI Prompt Writing Practices[2], you may still struggle to get the AI to follow your instructions exactly. But, through our research on best practices, we also found some phrases that can alter how an LLM will respond. 

But first, let’s set a baseline. To observe how much we can affect an LLM’s output, we need to have a control. So, here’s a regular question for Microsoft Copilot, no bells or whistles. Let’s see what we get back (be warned, this is a taffy-heavy post!). 

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150 / Bob Moesta: Understanding Users’ Struggling Moments Is Our Job To Be Done

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Bob Moesta
Re-Wired Group

We didn’t realize it when we started recording this episode with Bob Moesta. But the moment our conversation ended, we knew his would serve as Product Momentum’s milestone 150th podcast! And what better topic to explore – and who better to explore it with – than a product manager’s job to be done with the … Continued

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Bob Moesta
Re-Wired Group

Best AI Prompt Writing Practices According to ITX Research

ITX is no stranger to experimenting with new and interesting technologies. Of course, hot-button and top-of-mind is AI-generated content: does it have a place within copywriting?

And while we at the ITX Content Team believe it does, we’ve continued to investigate the technology. Our research, which includes several internal experiments, has led us to believe that it could be a useful tool for a content writer, with some major caveats

So, how can you get the most out of a large language model (LLM)? If rumors are to be believed, everyone’s already using AI for everything. If that’s true, then how does anyone stand out if we’re all using the same programs?

Really, there is no secret. There are many different schools of thought, and some tricks you can use to improve an AI’s output, but it’s up in the air at the moment. Our general philosophy: to get good out, you’ve got to put good in.

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