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As a dedicated tester and member of Rangle’s quality team, it’s my job not only to ensure that all the apps and platforms we build together with our clients are functional and operating the right way but also to stay current on the tools and technologies that will enable me and my team to do our jobs better, faster and smarter. Over the past couple of months, I committed to assessing a variety of testing tools, looking at a new tool every two weeks. This might seem like a lot, but I think far from being eccentric, it’s going to become the norm in our constantly-changing tech world.
Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss stepped down from her role as chief executive of the buzzy cosmetics brand on Tuesday this week, in the wake of huge layoffs impacting their technology team, and failed launches of in-store shopping experiences.
Fighting organizational complexity is a losing battle. For enterprise companies, their complexity is their strength — multiple product lines, international footprints (and even multiple subsidiary businesses), all work together to reduce risk across the breadth of the organization — and help the company span multi-decade or even multi-century changes to their markets.
Recently, I’ve been working on a cool project called Radius Tracker, an in-house proof-of-concept tool we built for tracking design system adoption . Our CI/CD strategy for this project includes quality checks, packaging, and distribution to NPM.
What makes a good Product Manager? Whether you’re looking to expand the product team at your company or, like Rangle, sell the skillset to prospective clients, it’s critical to understand what separates those who can truly guide impactful products to market from those who merely fulfill the functions of the role.
Risk is the word of the moment in the C-suite at most major companies in the commerce space. The competition for market share is hotter than ever, and the pandemic proved to many organizations that moving fast is not only possible, it’s necessary.
Organizations building a design system face a challenge in determining the impact it has on the organization’s portfolio. A design system is not a standalone, value-generating product, but it does accelerate how fast an organization can ship on-brand features and products. Once the design system is built, organizations struggle to justify the investment and even its existence, as it’s not easy to use traditional profitability metrics like ROI to justify the investment.
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, speed-to-market matters — but the speed of learning matters more.