Applying Effective Coordination Practices.
Farid Sabitov tackles the practical realities and challenges of connecting design, product management, and engineering through coordination practices at scale.
Based on Farid’s experience pursuing cross-functional integration within large-scale organizations; from discovery to ensuring team adoption of a new way of working.
The goal: to provide attendees with an actionable plan to foster a more efficient, interconnected work environment.
The talk covers handling pain points experienced by many DesignOps professionals, including:
- Understaffed design teams
- Design treated as shared services
- A lack of cohesive connection between design, product, and engineering
Going deeper:
- Using best-in-class issue-tracking tools
- The art of Cross-functional Collaboration of DesignOps, EngOps, and ProductOps
- Harmonizing program management, dependency management, and planning capabilities
- Frameworks that have worked and those that have not - how to create an actionable plan to improve cohesion in your own organization
- Dashboards and Metrics: ensuring enough information, not data overload, obscuring important triggers. Dashboards and metrics need to enhance coordination while providing decision-makers with a unified view of all key aspects. Great dashboards are the foundation for better planning and effective decision-making
- Change Management: with insights on the creation of playbooks, maturity models, the integration of rituals and ceremonies, and the use of advanced tools for dependency management. Plus, why champions who help co-facilitate changes are critical for success
A presentation rich in insights, case studies, knowledge of pitfalls, and opportunities for quick wins.
