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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!

Product managers

Product managers

Product managers

How involving developers in product planning boosts creativity and quality

How to boost product development through collaboration

Minnie Lee

Product management

professional-growth

teams

Stateless forms with the Rails Attributes API

Learn how to leverage the Rails Attributes API for creating forms with non-Active Record objects. Follow this guide for a smoother, more efficient development process.

Justin Searls

Accelerate quality software

rails

ruby

open-source

Double Agent Profile: Robby Thompson

Robby Thompson

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Debugging Ruby on Rails with Visual Studio Code

Rails 7 ships with the new debug gem, here's how to put it to work in VS Code for a delightfully native debugging experience

Justin Searls

Software tooling & tips

ruby

testing

open-source

Elixir like a local

Learn how embracing Elixir and Erlang can optimize your app's performance and save costs. Say goodbye to unnecessary external dependencies and hello to efficiency!

Eric Newbury

Accelerate quality software

elixir

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Handling Heroku's "heroku_ext" schema for Postgres extensions

Heroku recently made a change that requires all Postgres extensions to be created inside a special "heroku_ext" schema. Here's how to migrate your app.

Justin Searls

DevOps and security

postgres

rails

heroku

Double Agent Profile: Sukhraj Singh

Sukhraj Singh

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Mastering automated refactoring tools: A practical guide

Dive into our practical guide on using automated refactoring tools to understand and enhance your code. Learn key techniques and boost your coding confidence today.

Daniel Huss

Legacy modernization

react

automation

ruby

testing

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