Agile & Design

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ — Academy. In a previous article, we discussed the Definition of Done(↘︎Link) and how it impacts the overall delivery. This article will have a slightly different role than all the previous articles. In this article, we will step away from the tool itself and reflect on the relationship between Agile and Design that can bring more harmony into your product design delivery. Especially by understanding the differences between dynamics and overlaps that create some tension, synergy and healthy competition, driving the organisations to become more agile without losing their entrepreneurial(↘︎Link) and customer-centric(↘︎Link) spirit.

One or the Other?

It is often debated who is in the driver’s seat, design or development. You will probably be led by the design stage and gate delivery mode if you are an agency. If you are a development house, you will probably led by the code as your organisation builds the product and services, and your culture and methods will lead to engineering culture. This, in many respects, empowers your product owners to make design-informed decisions for the product and services and deliver it under a variety of…