A User’s Guide to Managing Experience Teams
Date: Wednesday, August 13
Time: 2:00 - 5:00PM
Track: workshop
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In this workshop you will:
- Learn about prioritization and project tracking
- Gain insight into career development paths within a user experience team
- Find out about performance management
- Discover how to tailor your own management style
Looking for tools and techniques to more effectively manage a user experience team? Or, are you a member of a team who is looking to understand your manager better? In this workshop, two of Google’s seasoned User Experience Managers, Margaret Gould Stewart and Graham Jenkin, will share insights gleaned from managing user experience teams in a variety of settings. Margaret and Graham will also tackle other tough issues, such as:
- Building a culture of constructive feedback
- Developing leadership within a team
- Effectively managing team dynamics
- Evangelizing user experience practices
- Managing stakeholders
Margaret and Graham will provide takeaway tools you can put to use right away or shelve for a later date. They will also leverage the experience and knowledge of the workshop’s participants, breaking into small groups so you can propose solutions for the big challenges that face both UX managers and members of UX teams. Finally, the workshop will end with a User Experience Manager panel, where veteran UX leaders from a variety of contexts will field questions from the audience about what makes a great UX manager and how you can get the most out of your team.
Comments
The Googlers did an amazing job planning and running this session. The event was great and will have lasting value for me and those I get to manage.
Thanks to all who attended and contributed to this workshop. Our goal was to build a guide to managing ux teams that our community can share, develop, and put to use right away. And thanks to your amazing ideas and energy, we're on our way. We'll be publishing your contributions at http://www.managinguxteams.com
Graham and I had a great time with all the attendees at our workshop yesterday. We really appreciate the energy and creativity everyone brought to the table. We're excited about sharing the great ideas developed around a range of topics related to UX management and leadership with the whole UX community through the blog we're set up at http://www.managinguxteams.com. Please check it out and add your own ideas and comments. Cheers!
me too.