Creating the Mother Sauce of DesignOps Success.
Join Jackie Ajoux, Senior DesignOps lead, Roblox, as she shares her secret 'mother sauce' recipe for boosting team productivity at Electronic Arts (EA), a leading global interactive entertainment
software company.
Jackie shook up the daily grind in a 400+ person organizational experiment that tested both structured meeting time and focus time. The outcome: she kick-started a work revolution. Teams were not just working harder, but also smarter, and having a lot more fun in the process.
The story is one of implementing an innovative focus-time experiment and its subsequent impact.
Covering:
- Mixed Method Research: Methodologies that were applied for benchmarking and progress tracking, with an emphasis on learning what improves cross-group productivity and work satisfaction
- Training and Regular Check-ins: Instituting a training plan that provides options to work
more efficiently - Experiment Design & Execution: what was done and how – including ‘support interventions’ throughout the experiment
- Change Management and Adoption: The strategy to gauge the culture and appetite for change, and how it was used to foster adoption
- How a tactful mixed-method, change-management approach, including both top-down and bottom-up change, can maximize what is achieved
In this session Jackie invites you to participate in the storytelling in a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ by participatory voting to decide where the story goes.
Jackie will cover the details: the underlying research that generated the outcomes, the significant implications for organizational efficiency (especially in the work-from-home arena), and the need for companies to be both flexible and adaptive in their work arrangements.
So, step into the kitchen where the mother source gets created. Grab a spatula. You're not here to just watch; you're here to help provide all the highly flavoured ingredients – to cook up the story, to spice up the tale.
Key Takeaways: insights into the surprising results of change management, how it shaped EA's productivity model, and how you might explore initiating similar changes in your own work environment.
