DesignOps Dashboard
In my first three years at projekt202, the company had grown from four offices in the U.S. to over ten globally. With the growth coming from acquisitions, every office did not necessarily use the same templates nor share similar processes. In order to enable our organization to scale, I was asked to take on leadership of projekt202’s DesignOps efforts, and led those efforts in partnership with our global VP of Design from January 2020 to December 2021.
For transparency, alignment, communication and to demonstrate the value of the work our design leadership teams were doing together, I created the DesignOps Dashboard with the main goal of keeping everyone within the design organization aligned around the efforts in progress, those delivered and those in the backlog. Another dashboard goal is to prevent duplicate efforts and fold-in initiatives already in flight. The dashboard was created in Notion for ease of updating and sharing.
Speaking the Same Language
The dashboard defines each initiative by description and goals, using specific initiative OKRs and area OKRs (people, practice, platform, etc). The goal of this type of documentation is to speak in the same language as those in executive/corporate leadership whose measures of value are isolated within traditional business contexts.