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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

Double Takes

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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!

Agent Dossier: Brittany Moore

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There's nothing new under the sun

There's nothing new under the sun

In this RubyConf 2017 talk, Josh Greenwood and Justin Searls rediscover what drew people to Ruby in the years before they joined the community and share a seriously massive (and timeless) resources list.

Justin Searls

Software tooling & tips

ruby

rails

testing

conference-talk

Jumble of different colored blocks with label The Problem with Booleans

Solving the boolean identity crisis

Learn about the dangers of using booleans in your Elm code and how to write clearer code for you and your teammates with union types.

Jeremy Fairbank

Jeremy Fairbank

Software tooling & tips

elm

testing

data-engineering

Why modern engineering practices are a smart business investment

Learn how modern engineering practices can reduce costs, speed up development, and improve team satisfaction. See why they’re worth the investment.

Daryl Kulak

Software investment

agile

consulting

testing

devops

budgeting

Shape testing with JavaScript streams and Lodash FP

Testing JSON data can be tricky, but with Node.js and functional streams, it's a breeze. Dive into our guide to master I/O tasks and JSON validation seamlessly!

Sam Jones

javascript

testing

node.js

api

Pink storm trooper hands a Christmas stocking to one of Emperor Palpatine's guards

How to get better at dealing with failure

Shifting our perception of failure from a setback to a learning tool can enhance team communication, foster resilience, and promote a culture of open dialogue and continuous improvement in software development.

Steve Jackson

aws

teams

testing

conference-talk

Paper dolls give each other a high five

Explore the power of tmux and tmate for teamwork

Join us as we dive into how tmux and tmate transform remote coding sessions into a seamless collaborative experience. Start sharing today.

Sam Jones

Software tooling & tips

cloud

open-source

security

automation

Tame the frontend with Elm

Tame the frontend with Elm

Discover the benefits of Elm such as no runtime exceptions and helpful compiler error messages. Learn some of Elm's syntax and how to structure applications with the Elm Architecture.

Jeremy Fairbank

Jeremy Fairbank

Software tooling & tips

architecture

elm

javascript

testing

data-engineering

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