Milestone for ‘Integrating Research’

Realized that we’re 1/3 of the way through my list of planned Medium articles, which I’m thinking to eventually edit into book form.

Table of contents with links to completed articles below.

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Published + planned articles

Including links to completed posts:

EXPANDING REACH AND CONNECTIVITY

A. Envisioning existing research at the center of product innovation

• A1. Fighting insight waste with research repositories
• A2. Aiming for integrated research, not just a research repository tool
• A3. Extending insight ‘shelf life’ to get more value from research in product planning
• A4. [On Re+Ops Community Medium] Opening the gates: Addressing researchers’ concerns about broadening access to research repositories
• A5. [On Re+Ops Community Medium] Activating insights to overcome common barriers to product impact
• A6. Imagining new architectures for connected research repositories and systems
• A7. Using research knowledge to balance product leadership and management mindsets

B. Turning up research communications

• B1. Growing research ‘impact radius’ by connecting learning to more internal product audiences
• B2. Improving internal marketing about upcoming and new research
• B3. Fusing separate research teams’ roadmaps to enhance collaboration, efficiencies, and insight quality

C. Normalizing research reuse to lay the groundwork for new operations

• C1. Understanding the product learning landscape with a ‘snapshot inventory’ of all types of available research
• C2. Strengthening insights by evolving each research output into a meta analysis of compiled learning
• C3. Adding ‘echo read outs’ to re-engage product teams with research projects
• C4. Meta analyzing across existing research to inform strategic product uncertainties

FORGING SYSTEMIC KNOWLEDGE

D. Improving upon existing research knowledge management practices

• D1. Enabling collaboration with standards for describing research across teams and disciplines
• D2. Connecting existing research repositories owned by different disciplines and teams
• D3. Auditing governance in existing research repositories and applying new standards
• D4. Reconsidering success for existing research repositories and applying new standards

E. Establishing new tooling, systems, and programs to enhance research knowledge management

• E1. Envisioning new knowledge management successes and outcomes
• E2. Designing research system architectures and programs to achieve new knowledge management outcomes
• E3. Growing buy-in for what new research repository programs will require, capture, store, and activate
• E4. Driving research findability through primary research repository pivots and essential metadata
• E5. Cultivating the growth of high quality insights in research repositories
• E6. Pushing cross-study reporting from research repositories to build mindshare for crucial learning

F. Managing research in repositories as learning accrues and ages

• F1. Clarifying related insights into a consensus view within a research repository
• F2. Structuring emergent insight themes in research repositories to show the ‘forest’ and the ‘trees’
• F3. Ranking insights in research repositories to surface what matters most
• F4. Removing expired evidence from research repositories
• F5. Archiving insights that are no longer applicable in research repositories
• F6. Examining gaps in research repositories to inform research study roadmaps

CRAFTING ARTERIES INTO PLANNING

G. Driving early adoption of repositories in product design processes

• G1. Mapping existing research into design briefs and workflows
• G2. Enlisting design dreamers to explore solutions for unaddressed needs in research repositories
• G3. Connecting solution ideas and design proposals into research repositories
• G4. Evolving design systems from research repository learning

H. Onboarding all product people to repositories and their culture of research use

• H1. Pushing for citations of research repositories in product practice
• H2. Starting with related research while identifying product questions
• H3. Training product people on how to find and apply available research
• H4. Amplifying the emergent practices of research repository ‘lead users’

I. Expanding the integration of repositories into ongoing product planning

• I1. Using research repositories to connect specific insights to more of the ‘right’ product teams
• I2. Revisiting aggregated research when product leaders are actually thinking big about planning
• I3. Integrating existing research into product teams’ ongoing backlog, prioritization, and road map process
• I4. Tying research repositories into goal setting and reporting that product leadership are held accountable to

J. Tracking research progress toward product impact

• J1. Tracking feature and service launches that were initiated based on research learning
• J3. Tracking product team touch points with research repository contents
• J2. Tracking the ‘distance’ of individual insights from product release
• J4. Demonstrating individual researcher, team, and community impact in research repositories

CATALYZING PRODUCT CHANGE

K. Advocating for shifts in product direction based on accumulated research

• K1. Challenging product teams’ ‘tunnel vision’ assumptions using research repositories
• K2. Spotlighting crucial learning in research repositories to advocate for new vectors in product planning
• K3. Alerting product leadership to harm and conflicting values documented in research repositories

L. Retooling product organizations based on accumulated research

• L1. Institutionalizing new product success metrics based on learning in research repositories
• L2. Identifying problematic root causes in product development based on learning in research repositories
• L3. Driving new product teams and other organizational changes based on learning in research repositories

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