Redefining Design Relationship

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ — Academy. In a previous article, we discussed the relationship between Agile and Design(↘︎Link). This article will explore how designers can define the relationship within the team by using the development delivery method and, let alone, project management tools.

Jira is your ally

In many cases, Jira has been often classed as overwhelming with respect to simple stage and gate design delivery. Thousands of designers struggle to join the development teams and departments and search for clues of how they can navigate their day-to-day product design delivery.
In many cases, designers need to be able to filter all design tasks, user stories or epics that directly impact what needs to be delivered for the existing sprint and the following sprint.

Two things might happen here: first, you are under the spell of a very protective CPO(↘︎Link) or SCM(↘︎Link), and therefore, you might not be able to even touch the Jira setting or have no permission to amend it. And that is ok, do not worry about it. Second, you are in an environment that is fairly flexible and open to…