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DesignOps Community Sensing Session (Videoconference)
Thursday, May 13, 2021 • DesignOps Community
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Summary

Join us to explore the future of the DesignOps role, as well as the joys and challenges folks are facing in that role.

Key Insights

  • Design operations roles often start as teams of one, facing challenges in role definition and evangelism.

  • Strong leadership support vastly improves the impact and momentum of design ops teams.

  • Scaling design ops risks losing the human-centered element that makes the work effective and fulfilling.

  • There is a persistent tension between bureaucratic enterprise systems and startup agility in growing organizations.

  • Internal organizational operations directly impact the quality of external customer experiences.

  • Many design ops practitioners still struggle with insufficient resources and time to fulfill their ambitions.

  • The community values cohort-based learning and shared experiences to tackle common problems.

  • Post-pandemic work shifts introduce new complexities but also opportunities to rethink decision-making workflows.

  • The discipline maturity spectrum runs from just-starting roles to advanced, strategic partnerships with leadership.

  • Contributors find motivation by seeing their work as foundational bricks in ongoing organizational progress, even if not visible at every stage.

Notable Quotes

"Organizations aren’t suffering from a lack of ideas, they’re suffering from ways of working and culture that don’t allow good ideas to get heard."

"Operations internal to a company are inextricably linked with what is experienced by our customers."

"When those two things are not in harmony, frustration is felt both internally and externally."

"How do we scale without losing our humanity?"

"I’m a team of one. No one knows what I do. I don’t know what I do."

"Having a champion in leadership can make all the difference for design ops teams."

"The success of your work is in the building, laying foundational bricks even if you don’t see the final product."

"Returning to the office and how we hire will be critical factors in the near future of our work."

"We have a role potentially in dehumanizing the people we work with when adopting bureaucratic scaling systems."

"We see the conferences as polished snapshots of conversation that are happening in a community."

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