Jira for Designers: Enhancing Collaboration & Streamlining Workflows | Changying (Z) Zheng

Talk at The DEVOPS Conference - Global 2023: LEVERAGING JIRA TO EXPOSE PRODUCT DESIGN PROCESS, AND FACILITATE CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

Jira is not your friendly tool? Have you had a hard time with designers adopting Jira?

For developers, Jira is a popular tool to track progress and surface bugs. In addition, PMs use Jira to explain business goals and set quarterly product shipping targets. So why is there a hard time getting designers to adopt Jira as a tool?

It is not about the tool but understanding each discipline, how we work and collaborate, and how we approach problems differently. In this talk, Changying (Z) Zheng shares her journey working with the designers and IT to update their Jira design ticket at Cloudflare.

Spoiler: Some simple updates can facilitate the conversation between all disciplines in a balanced team. It doesn't matter how many designers we have to work with and whether the design org stands on its own or reports to the product org, or, in some cases, reports to the engineering org. The team will deliver value when we make the tools work for people. DesignOps can bridge the gap and make it happen.

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Speaker:
Z leads DesignOps for Cloudflare—a global network and security company. She is passionate about improving the lives of those she works with daily. Prior to joining Cloudflare, Z led design teams in-house and at design consultancy firms. In addition, Z has a background in EdTech and spent her time teaching and mentoring the next generation of designers.

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00:00 Intro
02:43 What is designing operations
08:50 Case study
18:50 Tools