Wow this article has inspired me this morning. Oh to be able to grab a coffee with Alison Rand and hear her story.

https://firstround.com/review/the-case-for-adding-designops-to-your-org-chart-lessons-from-invision/

Things spinning through my head..

1. We all grew up in a world of analysis, design, build, test, implement.

2. Over the years some might say the rush to build and cut code has driven a focus on DevOps and speeding up the develop and productionise system change

3. Product teams, user experience UX teams, creative types are sometimes doing analysis and design – in a bubble or as an add on, to the projects that major on the core IT backbone changes

4. The aspects of organisational design, role changes, structural changes, new skill development as a result of the change is often not part of the design consideration at all.

5. Often the project management and PMO team will be highlighting risks of customer or team adoption and the business sponsor remains focused on time, cost and deadlines of the system deployment .

6. Business analysts in many programmes of change are systems analysts focused on what changes need to be made in the system to get the business outcomes but little attention is given to understanding the non system functional changes.

7. Architects working on programmes are very much focused on the tech, the data and the security – the foundational design of the tech is solid and mature. With business architecture a discipline of abstract capability diagrams with at best consideration to integration with suppliers and partners

8.DesignOps feels as if it’s about joining up all the design disciplines to work in partnership with all the technical DevOps disciplines.

9. DesignOps could be the more funky name for business change; brining alive the fact that “yes our system estate is changing” but boy so is our “business estate”

10. Combining designops and DevOps into product, service delivery teams aligned to customer segments and driving change in design and dev through customer co creation and insight has to be be the way to go – co creation design and development platforms with the design models the development code and the workflow is definitely a key enabler

Can organisations reorganize in an agile, adaptive way to make the shift to these models. What’s your thoughts?