Design in an Agile Organisation. Intro

Since I took over as Head of Design at Nuri seven months ago, a lot has changed. The design team is now bigger than ever and the company as a whole is going through exponential growth.

In fact, from just 80 employees at the end of 2020, we expect to have over 180 by the end of 2021.

These huge changes are important for the company, but also create new challenges, especially when it comes to finding the right way to collaborate together. We’ve moved away from Design as a Service (one centralized chapter that would get tickets from across the organisation), implemented the Spotify Squad Model, became Agile oriented, and many other initiatives to seamlessly boost the integration of design across the company.

Today, I’m going to talk about how we’ve been integrating Design into Scrum in an organisation that uses Agile principles.

For me, this is one of the most important topics, because it defines how we want to work together, what rituals we want to have, how often we want to release features, and what types of design activities fit in and when in the product development process.

There is a lot of content out there about Agile, Scrum, Design, and Agile + Scrum. I gathered together different content and consolidated them into a single internal document, which I shared across the company. Since the team felt it was a useful piece of information, I decided to share it more openly. That’s why I’m writing here today.

Along the way, you’ll find I have added links to several nice articles, so you can go deeper if you want to. If you find something too simplified, please write a comment so I can update this article with your feedback.

Let’s get started

Part 1: Agile — in a nutshell
Part 2: Scrum. What is it?
Part 3: How to integrate Design within Agile & Scrum
Part 4: Final thoughts

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