Over the past decade, organizations have reinvented themselves through digital transformation. Nowadays, this journey is well in its second chapter and gaining momentum – also driven by the explosion of app and service deployment, data and intelligence, digital reach, and post-pandemic customer expectations. And the newest cutting-edge technological trends – such as hybrid infrastructure and edge computing – are making it particularly difficult for traditional tools to keep up.

If you’re part of a design team, chances are that you have at times experienced slow-paced product development coupled with a long dev backlog (with limited space for additional tickets from the UX team). But to optimize how the product team (whether PO, UI, UX, or frontend devs) work together, it helps to experiment with useful tools, physical boards, and new processes. For example, here is an exhaustive yet simple UX project checklist.

Product roadmap templates make it easy to structure and communicate your product plans. But when considering which template to go with, it is important to think about who the roadmap is for, what you want to communicate, and what information you want to include. So, I put together a list of 16 downloadable Excel and PowerPoint templates that you can tailor to your specific roadmap needs, including.

The acceleration in digitalization, also due to the pandemic, has brought an organization’s business and IT teams and strategic goals closer together than ever before. Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have existed since the early 1980s and, until recently, their typical role was primarily focused on managing the technology infrastructure. But in a post-pandemic world, that role is now expanding beyond traditional IT responsibilities.

Image source: Unsplash.com With an increasing number of applications and populated data, monitoring becomes crucial since businesses are challenged to satisfy millions of users simultaneously. In order to detect performance problems in a timely manner, companies require APM tools to collect and process app and user data that is being generated continuously.

UBER’s Microservice Architecture 💡 Microservice Architecture is a framework that consists of small, individually deployable services performing different operations. Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Uber, and many other high-growth companies are now shifting from a monolithic architecture into multiple codebases to form a microservice architecture.

Establishing your business’s online presence has become a fundamental need rather than a secondary step. In the wake of the 2019 pandemic, a large chunk of interaction, social and business, has escalated online. The user’s journey is as important as functionality to stand out in the crowded digital marketplace.

These days, a new venture’s success begins and ends on customer experience. Due to a large number of similar digital products out there, end users will stop using a product immediately if the user experience is not seamless. Similarly, a mobile application delivering a substandard user experience (UX) will fall behind the competition. A good digital product can turn into a failure if it does not work for the end user.

Calculating the true value of an IT project can be difficult, primarily due to the challenge of quantifying notions through dollar values. For example, automating processes will undoubtedly increase efficiency, but what’s the dollar value of such output?

33% of consumers will leave a brand they love after just one bad experience. And almost 80% of American consumers say that convenience and speed are among the most important factors to a good customer experience (according to PwC). So yes, good UX design can make or break your business’ product and customer relationships. Hence, products are more people-focused than ever before.