The Experience Lab

12. A retro for retrospectives

11. It’s nice being nice around the Holidays

10. Our big reaction to React Native

9. The best 20 minutes about Staff Augmentation

In part two of our exciting discussion about OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), hosts Rob Hall and Jay Cosgrove with veteran product manager Nick Alexander get down to brass tacks about the practical usage of OKRs within teams both large and small.

Rob and Jay are joined by Lead Product Manager Nick Alexander for an in-depth survey of OKRs (that's Objectives and Key Results); what they are, what they aren't, and how to use implement them in your practice of product management.

Rob and Jay are back to kick off the second half of our first season with a short chat about the virtues of creating MVPs, or Minimum Viable Products in your organization. With some important lessons from their years of experience rapidly building and releasing MVPs to the market, this is a great episode for anyone needing a pick-me-up or help getting their ideas to market faster.

Rob and Jay are joined by Principal Developer and resident Machine Learning guru, Jerry Deng, for a detailed primer on the ins-and-outs of Machine Learning. Our wide-ranging episode includes a review of the relationship between ML and Artificial Intelligence, practical applications of ML, ways to get started, potential obstacles and a glimpse into where we think Machine Learning is headed.

Rob and Jay are back in the [socially-distant] studio to talk about the big names in product management methodologies and how we apply their principles to our practice of product design.

On today's episode, Rob is joined by Solution Architect and veteran developer Josh Brown for a fascinating conversation about life as a developer, modern approaches to software solution architecture, and some twists and turns through the cosmos. Josh peppers the conversation with important wisdom from nearly two decades of experience building software and leading other developers. Note: this episode was originally recorded in April, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 shutdown.

If you've ever lived the agency life, you've probably dealt with different types of pricing and billing models - time and material, retainer, and flat-rate. All come with their pros and cons, some more risky than others. Are these the only ways to structure client engagements? Rob and Jay do a critical survey of our experience with each of these models; what's worked, what hasn't, what pitfalls we want to avoid, and where we think the future lies.

In the first episode of The Experience Lab, Product Director Rob Hall and Senior Product Manager Jay Cosgrove take a dive into the world of Product Management tools, surveying the tools we use at Digital Scientists as well as some best practices around dealing with the problem of point solutions.