The process of preparing, equipping, and supporting individuals to successfully adopt change to drive organizational success and outcomes. Crucial for ensuring smooth transitions and effective implementation of new processes or systems.
The ability of an organization to adapt quickly to market changes and external forces while maintaining a focus on delivering value. Essential for fostering an adaptable and resilient design and development process.
A change management strategy that aligns people, process, and technology initiatives to improve performance and achieve business goals. Crucial for adapting to market changes and ensuring the organization's long-term success.
The strategic objectives that an organization aims to achieve, guiding its operations and decision-making processes. Important for aligning digital product development with the broader mission and objectives of the organization.
An organizational structure that emphasizes flexibility, employee initiative, and decentralized decision-making. Useful for fostering innovation and rapid response to changes within an organization.
A model of organizational change management that involves preparing for change (unfreeze), implementing change (change), and solidifying the new state (refreeze). Important for successfully implementing and sustaining changes in product design processes and organizational practices.
A framework that defines how an organization operates across various functions to deliver value to customers and achieve business objectives. Crucial for aligning organizational functions and processes with strategic goals.
The process of transitioning an organization to agile methodologies, including changes in culture, processes, and practices. Essential for organizations seeking to adopt agile practices for improved efficiency and responsiveness.
The extent to which individuals or organizations plan for and consider the long-term consequences of their actions. Crucial for designing strategies and products that are sustainable and adaptable over time.
A process decision toolkit that allows organizations to tailor their agile practices to their specific needs, promoting agility and continuous improvement. Crucial for optimizing agile practices to fit organizational contexts.
A leadership philosophy where the leader prioritizes the needs of the team, empowering and supporting members to achieve their full potential and fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment. Important for building strong, motivated teams, enhancing collaboration, and promoting a culture of trust and respect within an organization.
Organizational Change Management (OCM) is the process of managing the people side of change to achieve desired business outcomes. Essential for ensuring successful implementation of changes within an organization.
The study of the relationships between people, practices, values, and technologies within an information environment. Helps in understanding and designing systems that are sustainable and adaptive to human and environmental changes.
The systematic approach to dealing with the transition or transformation of an organization's goals, processes, or technologies. Essential for managing and facilitating successful organizational changes.
Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. Essential for aligning organizational goals, improving focus and engagement, and driving measurable results across teams and individuals.
An organizational environment that encourages and supports creative thinking, risk-taking, and the pursuit of new ideas. Essential for fostering continuous improvement and breakthrough advancements.
Goals, Ideas, Steps, and Tasks (GIST) is an agile planning technique to break down projects into manageable parts. Essential for organizing and executing agile projects effectively.
The organizational structure and dynamics of teams within a company, designed to enhance collaboration and delivery. Important for optimizing team performance and project outcomes.
A mindset and approach that embodies the entrepreneurial spirit, passion for improvement, and deep sense of ownership typically associated with a company's founders. Essential for maintaining agility, innovation, and customer-centricity as organizations grow and mature.
A clear and concise statement that defines the purpose and goals of a product, guiding its development and strategic direction. Crucial for aligning product development efforts with organizational vision and goals.
The practice of guiding and inspiring teams to develop and deliver successful products, often involving strategic vision, team management, and innovation. Crucial for driving product success and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
The fundamental guidelines and practices that underpin effective change management, ensuring successful implementation of changes. Important for providing a structured approach to change management initiatives.
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) is an acronym for describing the challenging conditions of the modern world. Important for understanding and navigating dynamic and unpredictable environments.
SAFe is a framework designed to scale agile practices across large organizations by integrating agile and lean principles. It is widely used but criticized for its rigidity, bureaucratic structure, and potential to stifle true agile culture.
A framework that outlines how a product is developed, managed, and delivered, including roles, processes, and tools used throughout its lifecycle. Crucial for ensuring efficient and effective product management and development.
Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a strategic planning and management system used to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization. Essential for aligning business activities with organizational strategy and improving performance.
The belief that abilities and intelligence can be developed through dedication and hard work. Important for fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Enterprise Project Management (EPM) is a comprehensive approach to managing projects across an entire organization. Essential for coordinating complex, cross-functional projects and achieving organizational objectives.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a strategic framework used to align an organization's business strategy with its IT infrastructure. Crucial for optimizing processes, improving agility, and ensuring that technology supports business goals.
The level of sophistication and integration of design practices within an organization's processes and culture. Essential for assessing and improving the effectiveness of design in driving business value and innovation.
An ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes over time through incremental and breakthrough improvements. Crucial for fostering a culture of constant enhancement and adaptation.
Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a framework for improving and optimizing processes within an organization. Essential for assessing and enhancing the maturity and efficiency of processes in product design and development.
The day-to-day activities required to produce goods and services, manage resources, and support business functions. Essential for ensuring efficient and effective functioning of an organization.
The structure of brands within an organization, defining the relationships between parent brands, sub-brands, and other brand entities. Crucial for organizing brand portfolios and ensuring cohesive brand management.
A strategic approach where decisions and direction are set by top-level management and flow down through the organization, often aligned with overarching business goals. Crucial for ensuring strategic alignment and coherence across all levels of an organization.
The study of dynamic systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, leading to unpredictable behavior. Important for recognizing and managing unpredictable elements in design and development processes.
A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized unit within an organization that oversees and standardizes project management practices. Essential for ensuring consistency, efficiency, and alignment with strategic goals across projects.
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile product development to multiple teams working on a single product. It provides a minimalist, large-scale agile approach that maintains the simplicity and effectiveness of Scrum while addressing the challenges of coordination and integration in multi-team environments.
A cognitive bias where new evidence or knowledge is automatically rejected because it contradicts established norms or beliefs. Important for recognizing resistance to change and designing strategies to encourage openness to new ideas among designers.
A management framework that organizes employees into small, cross-functional teams (tribes) to enhance agility, collaboration, and innovation. Important for fostering a collaborative and agile work environment.
A professional responsible for planning, executing, and closing projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and on budget. Crucial for managing project activities and ensuring successful delivery of project goals.
A structured routine for continuous improvement based on a scientific approach to problem-solving and process optimization. Crucial for fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within product design teams.
A holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. Essential for solving complex problems and designing systems that account for interdependencies and dynamics.
An interdisciplinary study of systems, examining the complex interactions and relationships between components within a whole. Crucial for understanding and designing complex, interconnected systems.
The process by which a measure or metric comes to replace the underlying objective it is intended to represent, leading to distorted decision-making. Important for ensuring that metrics accurately reflect true objectives and designing systems that prevent metric manipulation.
The study of complex systems and how interactions within these systems give rise to collective behaviors. Useful for understanding and managing the complexity in design processes and systems.
A design philosophy that emphasizes core design principles over rigid adherence to standardized processes. Essential for maintaining creativity and innovation in large-scale, process-driven environments.
A systematic process for determining and addressing needs or gaps between current conditions and desired outcomes. Important for identifying user requirements and guiding the development of digital products that meet those needs.
Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, and Ethical (STEEPLE) is an analysis tool that examines the factors influencing an organization. Crucial for comprehensive strategic planning and risk management in product design.
The set of shared values, practices, and goals that characterize a startup company. Important for fostering innovation, agility, and a collaborative environment within product design teams.
The practice of guiding and inspiring teams to create effective, user-centered design solutions that align with business goals. Crucial for fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence in design practices within organizations.
Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed (RACI) is a responsibility assignment framework that clarifies roles and responsibilities in a projec. Crucial for ensuring clear communication and accountability in project management.
Critical Incident Technique (CIT) is a method used to gather and analyze specific incidents that significantly contribute to an activity or outcome. This method is important for identifying key factors that influence performance and user satisfaction.
The ability to understand and deal with various business situations, making sound decisions to ensure successful outcomes. Important for designers to align their work with business goals and make informed decisions.
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (OODA) is a decision-making framework often used in strategic planning and rapid response situations. Crucial for agile decision-making and strategic planning in dynamic environments.
The core values outlined in the Agile Manifesto, including individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Fundamental for guiding agile practices and fostering an agile mindset.
The core principles that underpin agile methodologies, focusing on collaboration, flexibility, and customer satisfaction. Crucial for guiding agile practices and ensuring effective project delivery.
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a productivity methodology that emphasizes capturing tasks, organizing them, and taking action. Essential for improving personal and team productivity and task management.
Fundamental guidelines that inform and shape the design process, ensuring consistency, usability, and effectiveness in product creation. Essential for creating coherent, user-centered designs that align with organizational goals and user needs.
A theory of motivation that emphasizes the importance of autonomy, competence, and relatedness in fostering intrinsic motivation and psychological well-being. Important for understanding how to design experiences that support user motivation and well-being.