Leadership, diversity, and inclusion in a time of global crisis. We are in a time of tremdous stress. In my 1/2 of century of life I don’t think I have been under so much stress ever. That probaby speaks to the realities of a being a raised upper middle class white (even Jewish) straight man. What is also true is…

Managing people, time, processes, and budgets across a set of programs, any programs is hard. To do it well though requires some level of literacy into the different types of activities that are being performed. …

So I answered a question on the twitters here:

What matters most is the story Yesterday during one of my DesignOps workshops — this time at the Design Leadership Summit in Toronto—one of the attendees asked a pretty good question: When interviewing candidates and having them present their portfolios I’ve noticed a growing trend of candidates presenting directly from their web sites. This has led…

Design Operation’s Core Mission to Amplify the Value of Design Practice. Closing Keynote @ DesignOps Summit 24 October, 2019 Brooklyn, NY #DesignOps Full deck on Slideshare. Amplify Hi everyone, I’m really excited to be giving this talk to you all. Land Acknowledgment

I am asked often where does DesignOps land in a design organization? To answer this is both easy but has some subtleties. The subtleties are mostly about scaling DesignOps over time. Most of the time the activities of operationalizing a design organization resides within the leadership of the design team. …

It’s a social imperative. And when done correctly, a source of tremendous added value. — What is Remote Work? Remote or distributed work is any situation in which one or more employees aren’t sitting in physical proximity to other members of their team. This can take a lot of forms: organizations with Work From Home (WFH) policies, teams working on different floors or in distributed offices, and teams with…

UPDATE: I have provided this as a Suggestion/Commentable Google Document. I look forward to the engagement. I’ve been re-reading the Agile Manifesto over and over again over the last 5 years since I’ve been really pushing for Design Operations (DesignOps) and many people want to turn DesignOps into the next…

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