DesignOps: Integrating Product Design Into Your Software Development Lifecycle

Explore the integration of evidence-based, multidisciplinary innovation into software development lifecycles in this one-hour conference talk. Discover practical approaches to incorporating design functions into product teams and learn about the benefits of Design Production Operations for developers, product leaders, and customers. Delve into topics such as scaling agile frameworks, perception of design, enterprise organizations, and the experience triad. Gain insights on operating at a program level, conducting user impact assessments, and implementing design reviews. Learn about measuring outcomes, creating design systems, and finding the sweet spot for remote collaborative tools. Understand the importance of documentation, design sprints, and the distinction between widgets and components in the context of DesignOps.

Introduction
Meet Josh Smith
McKinsey Study
Scaling Agile Framework
Perception of Design
Design as a Connection
Design Skills May Be Distributed
The Pressure to Specialization
Symptoms of Specialization
Enterprise Organizations
Investing in Design
DesignOps
Org Structure
Team Culture
Scalable
Organ
Organization
Skills
Experience Triad
Operating at a Program Level
Opportunity Space
Kickoff
User Impact Assessment
Requirements
Partners
Stakeholders
Visibility
Toolkits
Workshops
Connecting
Ideation
Engagement
Scaling
Design Review
Measuring Outcomes
Product Task Flow
Summary
Questions
Design Systems
DesignOps Channel
Web Analytics
In Teams
Documentation
Design Sprints
Finding a Sweet Spot
Using an Existing Framework
Remote Collaborative Tools
Widgets vs Components