Clearly communicating design needs and goals between UX and development teams can be difficult to navigate. Join us as we discuss best practices, tips and recommendations, and lessons learned from our experiences in the world of consulting.

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Navigating the UX & Development Handoff

Our own mental health is an important yet often overlooked part of our lives that affects everything we do. Burnout, anxiety, and stress often plague the world of consulting and require a proactive strategy to combat. Join us as we discuss how to foster a company culture of respect, openness, and care toward mental health needs as well as some of the strategies Expero has implemented to better support and care for employees.

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Resources:
• Suicide prevention hotline: 1-800-273-8255
• 911 for life threatening emergencies (note: suicide prevention and mental health providers will use 911 as a last resource if they are unable to diffuse the situation).
• 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or Live Online Chat with the National Suicide Prevention network, where you can talk to training professionals. Can provide crisis counseling and mental health referrals.
• 1-800-662-HELP for Substance Use and Disorder Issues.
• 1-877-SAMHSA7 (662-4357) SAMHSA is a Government Administration under the US DHHS, tasked with helping to provide referrals to mental health providers, and can act as a crisis hotline.
• State, county, and citywide hotlines (vary by state/county).
• Some states provide COVID-19 Crisis Counseling hotlines, Veteran Crisis hotlines and Teen crisis hotlines.

Mental Health in Consulting

This week we’re joined by Expero’s Co-Founders to talk about what running a consulting firm is really like. We’ll discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that consulting offers, why attracting and keeping talented people is so vital, and how to punch above your weight to win big deals with big customers.

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Running a Consultancy

New technology options are abundant and diverse. How do you know when it’s time to try something new or stick with what you know? How will these decisions affect your team as a whole? What do consultants consider when making these calls? Join us as we discuss all these questions and more.

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Tackling New Technology on the Fly

Today we’re discussing the sunk cost fallacy - what it is, why it matters, and what to do when you find yourself or those around you buying into it.

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The Sunk Cost Fallacy

What if Santa approached you to build a naughty or nice list application for him? Where would you start? What questions would you ask? Why did he approach you to begin with? We spent way more time than we should have thinking through all of these questions so you wouldn’t have to. So pour yourself some eggnog, kick back by the fire, and join us for a peek behind the curtain to see how such a simple idea can quickly get out of hand. 

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Christmas Special: Building a Naughty or Nice App for Santa

Join us as we discuss the value of estimation and share some helpful methods and tips to consider when estimating time and effort. We’ll also discuss some common misconceptions and pitfalls that can creep into the estimation process and how you can help yourself and your team navigate through them.

Estimation

Join us as our expert panel discusses the ins and outs of refactoring. We’ll talk through when it’s appropriate, lessons learned, risks and rewards, and other helpful tips from our years of experience.

Refactoring

There’s no way around it: user testing is vitally important in software development. So what options do you have when, for whatever reason, you can’t speak with end users to validate what you’re building? Join us as we discuss these challenges and share some helpful methods we’ve employed when navigating these constraints.

When User Testing Isn't Possible

What does it really mean to be a consultant, and is it really all that different from contracting or working as a salaried employee? Join us as we highlight the key differentiators that make consulting a unique challenge that we enjoy taking on each day.

Consulting 101

Product thinking is a bit of a buzzword in the business world today, but what does it really mean, and what does it look like to effectively incorporate it into your project? Join us as we discuss all these questions and more.

Product Thinking 101

What does it look like to start a project off on the right foot? Join us as we discuss best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations for making your next project kickoff a success.

How to Kick Off a Project

Preparing to enter the workforce can be daunting and often comes with numerous questions and unknowns. Where should I apply? How long does it take to find a job? Do I need to start with an internship? What if I don’t know exactly what I want to do yet? How can I tell if the company I’m applying at is a good fit? Join us as we discuss all these questions and more.

Advice for Graduating Students in Tech

Join us as we discuss how we approach mentorship at Expero, why we feel mentorship is so important, and various methods and approaches to mentorship that we’ve found particularly effective.

Mentorship

What makes for a good question? What are the factors and considerations you should consider when formulating a question? How do timing and context affect how you should frame your question? Join us as we discuss all these factors and more.

Asking Good Questions

What unique challenges and considerations need to be taken into account when designing for startups specifically? Join us and special guest Dianne Eberhardt from The Design Project as we discuss these and more startup specific questions.

Designing For Startups (ft. Dianne Eberhardt)

Today we’re sitting down with several internship facilitators and former interns to hear what sets expero’s internship program apart from the rest.

Intern Highlight

Today we’re discussing how to approach conflict in the workplace and how, when handled well, it can actually make projects go more smoothly and enable better collaboration and communication.

Navigating Conflict

We're working with Santa and the 3 Kings again to assess how they can leverage AI to differentiate themselves in the market. Meanwhile, someone else seems to be green with envy and has approached us to repurpose Santa's app for their own purposes.

Christmas Special Pt. 3: Considering AI & Competitors

Happy New Year! Join us as we reflect back on everything that happened in 2023 and discuss our predictions, concerns, hopes, and dreams for the year ahead.

2024 Predictions

Join us as we discuss the reasons for and ways to approach the final phase of the product's lifecycle.

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Sunsetting Products

We’ve all been there: you underestimate how long that effort should take, realize your approach isn’t actually the best in this situation, or maybe even just have a bad attitude during a Monday meeting. How can you move forward and make things right when you realize you’re in the wrong? Join us as we discuss. 

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Being Wrong

We recently gathered together to discuss and debate the pros and cons of Generative AI and how it may or may not fundamentally change how we approach user centric design moving forward. While we weren’t originally planning to release this conversation publicly, there were so many interesting points that came up that we couldn’t help but share it with the world. Please forgive any audio issues or choppy bits as we did our best to smooth out the recording for you to enjoy.

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Generative AI + UX Roundtable

Burnout in the workplace is a serious issue that is often overlooked, seen as normal, or viewed as taboo to talk about. Join us as we discuss what it is, how to identify it in yourself and others, how you can safeguard against it, and what recovery looks like.

Burnout

We all know the feeling of being stuck in a meeting that should have been an email. How can you make sure your meetings are actually beneficial to the whole team and worth the time? Join us as we discuss.

Meetings

Sometimes we can get so caught up trying to create something beautiful that we forget how vital it is to consider usefulness as well. Join us as we discuss this phenomenon that we call "building the beautiful wrong thing" and how you can keep yourself and your teams from making such a grave mistake.

The Beautiful Wrong Thing

How can you ensure that your modernization effort will be a success? What even counts as modernization? And how can you tell when it’s really needed? Join us as we discuss all these questions and more!

Modernization

Sometimes you need to think outside the box to come up with new, interesting, and innovative ideas to solve tough problems. At Expero, we often call that "exploring the art of the possible."

The Art Of The Possible

Retrospectives can be a powerful tool to help your team identify weaknesses, celebrate successes, and continually improve. They can also quickly become repetitive slogs that serve no real purpose apart from complaining about everything that has gone wrong recently. Join us as we discuss how to make the most of your retrospectives. 

Retrospectives

A lot has happened over the last year. Santa has been approached by multiple interested parties who are interested in licensing his software for their own projects and holidays, and now he even has a reformed partner who has identified several opportunities for improvements.

Christmas Special Pt. 4: New Partners & Licensing

Join us for the inaugural episode of Connecting The Dots, a podcast by Experonauts. Today we’re discussing Proof of Concept software - what it is, how to approach developing it, mistakes we made in the process, and lessons learned over our years of experience in consulting.

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Proof of Concept Software

Join Expero's team of tech experts as they discuss best practices and lessons learned from the battlefield of consulting. Hosts and guests draw from a deep well of experience working with custom software products, supply chain optimization systems, biotech manufacturing workflows, financial service modernization efforts, and everything in between.

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