{"id":35662,"date":"2022-06-23T06:43:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uxpin.com\/studio\/?p=35662"},"modified":"2022-07-29T02:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:27:57","slug":"designops-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uxpin.com\/studio\/blog\/designops-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"DesignOps Strategy \u2013 How to Grow the Design Operations Team?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DesignOps has become a crucial operational function for many organizations. Some companies still operate without a dedicated DesignOps practitioner or team, working around bottlenecks and inefficiencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a 2020 NN Group survey of 557 UX practitioners<\/a>, “organizations only did 22% of recommended DesignOps efforts, did not have DesignOps-dedicated roles, and had low DesignOps maturity overall.” <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article explores four stages of DesignOps maturity and the goals you should set at each stage to scale and grow your team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stage 0: Nobody is Responsible for DesignOps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For products with small-cross functional teams working together, the motivation for DesignOps is low. Something the NN group calls a “Scattered Team Structure<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Product managers, design leads, and managers are responsible for various operational activities\u2013hence the Ops work is “scattered” among team members. At his Design Value Conference 2022<\/a> talk, Omkar Chandgadkar, Senior UX Designer at Amazon, called this stage “<\/em>Designing a plane while flying it<\/em><\/a>“<\/em> because UX teams operate reactively or tactically rather than strategically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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