Summary
Your DesignOps journey is a story of ups and downs, lessons learned, and victories won. Join new and veteran DPMs alike in shaping the forthcoming Rosenfeld book, The Design Conductors: Your Essential Guide to Design Operations. Authors Rachel Posman and John Calhoun will guide you through an interactive session to collect the burning questions, inspiring successes, and real-world examples of how DesignOps is practiced in real life by our amazing community, including: Getting into DesignOps The skills and competencies of a DPM DesignOps in the context of your team and organization The tools in your DesignOps toolkit DesignOps case studies you most want to see Join us on this journey and make your mark on the future of DesignOps!
Key Insights
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The book is intended to be a definitive guide on design operations, the first of its kind.
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A strong emphasis is placed on inclusivity, aiming to capture diverse voices and experiences in design ops.
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Key topics include defining design ops foundations, competencies, org context, toolkits, and specific challenges faced in the field.
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Practical examples and real-life successes will be highlighted throughout the book.
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The workshop format encourages interactive engagement and feedback from various stakeholders in the design ops community.
Notable Quotes
"We're writing a book on design operations, the definitive handbook for our practice."
"There is not a book currently that is dedicated to design ops; this is our aim."
"We want to create a book that has many different voices and many different practical examples."
"If there's one thing we've learned from writing this guide, there are a lot of stories in this community that need to be represented."
"We're looking for points of view on design ops fundamentals, how it's practiced, and how your team operates."
















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