UX DesignOps: Managing Stakeholders

UX DesignOps: Managing Stakeholders

26mBeginner2021-12-10

Authors

Dee Sadler

Dee Sadler

UX Leader and Educator

Course details

If you work in DesignOps, one of the most important parts of your job is to evangelize UX. It isn’t easy, though, particularly in a stressful, deadline-structured environment. In this course, Dee Sadler gives you the tools you need to manage stakeholder expectations and create a safe zone for your team, all while making sure your stakeholders know what deliverables they’ll get and when.

Learn more about how to work best with stakeholders in an agile, business-driven development process. Explore strategies for managing expectations, evangelizing UX, bringing stakeholders into the UX process, and gaining consensus as a team. Dee shows you how to map and interview your stakeholders to better understand what they need, what they expect, and what you can do to deliver.

Skills covered

Project LeadershipUX DesignUser ExperienceProject ManagementWeb DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

  • Managing design stakeholders and deliverables

DesignOps and Working with Stakeholders

  • Stakeholders in design processes
  • Presenting to stakeholders

Managing Expectations

  • Evangelizing user experience
  • Stakeholders as part of the UX process
  • Getting consensus
  • UX research and stakeholders

Stakeholder Deliverables

  • Mapping and interviewing stakeholders
  • Design thinking and your stakeholders

Conclusion

  • Next steps