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Survey: AI is here—and it’s reshaping product management

A new report from the Pragmatic Institute reveals how AI is transforming product management and driving growth. Here are the insights, adoption challenges, and the skills product leaders need to master AI and lead with intent.

Test Double Editorial Board

Test Double Editorial Board

Software tooling & tips

The dangers of abstracting away vendors in code

The dangers of abstracting away vendors in code

River Lynn Bailey

River Lynn Bailey

Software tooling & tips

How a product transformation drove 3x sales growth

The road to 3x sales: a case study in scaling with strategy

Test Double Editorial Board

Test Double Editorial Board

Product management

7 takeaways from CIO Tomorrow 2024 for leading transformation

7 takeaways from CIO Tomorrow 2024 for leading transformation

Cathy Colliver

Communication & teams

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A startup's launched after a new product in record time after Test Double's product coaching. Kudos to Jen Tedrow for her workshops that also unveiled a $2M product idea!

Tammy Lawlor's strategy enabled a global retail client to align their portfolio, boosting product releases from quarterly to 2x monthly (!) and launching two new products plus key enhancements.

Gusto's legacy Rails upgrade succeeded with our consultants leading the charge, fixing 1,700 test failures -- all without disrupting daily operations and completed on time and under budget. Cheers to Steve, River, Daniel, Will and Jake!

We collaborated with client leadership at a popular magazine to implement a culture of data-led decision making — which led to millions of dollars saved or generated. Shout out to Zack Kelly, who identified an e-commerce checkout error causing up to $7 million (!) in lost revenue.

Joé Dupuis audited and simplified Treehouse's AWS infrastructure, cutting costs by 25% and reducing infrastructure from ~40 servers to 3 servers + serverless ECS cluster. Why pay for complexity you don't need?

Shout out to DevOps pros Keith McCanless and Jessie Puls, who empowered dev teams at Mode to quickly and easily deliver both their own infrastructure needs!

The end of legacy code

The end of legacy code

What if you could change our relationship with legacy code, and shed the weight the name brings with it? What if legacy code disappeared? In this RailsConf 2023 talk Daniel Huss shares how.

Daniel Huss

Legacy modernization

communication

teams

The web won't replace native mobile

Dive into the trade-offs between web and native mobile apps. Find out why native mobile apps still have crucial user experience advantages. Perfect read for tech leaders!

Josh Justice

Accelerate quality software

accessibility

The looming demise of the 10x developer

Justin Searls on the looming demise of the 10x developer: Why an era of enthusiast programmers is coming to an end.

Justin Searls

Recruiting & careers

professional-growth

Picture perfect: The importance of diagrams in communicating ideas

Words are hard! Using pictures and diagrams can foster a shared understanding much more quickly.

Pam-Marie Guzzo

Pam-Marie Guzzo

Communication & teams

communication

Town hall with cutout of audience member standing up to speak

Let's Standardize Rails!: An experiment in direct RuboCop democracy

At RailsConf 2023, we conducted an experiment: could attendees do the hard work for us by voting on RuboCop rules so we could publish Standard Rails plugin?

Justin Searls

Software tooling & tips

rails

ruby

open-source

standard-ruby

Matsumoto, Japan

Field Report: RubyKaigi

Didn't make it to RubyKaigi 2023 in Japan? Fake it! Impress your friends with these facts you could only know if you were actually there!

Justin Searls

ruby

Building consensus for RuboCop in your team

Ever wondered how to get everyone on board with RuboCop? Dive into our guide on building consensus within your team and making the shift smoothly.

Nichol Alexander

Nichol Alexander

Communication & teams

ruby

communication

Simplify software setups with Nix and Devenv for smoother development

Discover how Nix and Devenv can simplify software setups, reduce complexity, and accelerate your team's productivity. Learn the tools and tips for efficient development.

Andrew Coleman

DevOps and security

ai-ml

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