DesignOps: Integrating Product Design Into Your Software Development Lifecycle

This course presents practical approaches for integrating multidisciplinary product design into software development organizations. It covers team structure, culture, requirements, stakeholder engagement, workshops, design reviews, documentation, design systems, and measuring outcomes.

Syllabus

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