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Topic: Team Management

Hiring the right people -- and maintaining positive communications among them -- can be challenging for any organization. Find out what kinds of design, collaboration, research, and decision-making techniques you can use to facilitate great, productive discussions on your team.

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Alexis Puchek

Building UX Teams

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Alexis Puchek

What You’ll Learn

  • Understand the skills your company needs to support its work, and the design talent that can provide them
  • Use hiring best practices to uncover the right candidates for positions and build a multi-disciplinary team
  • Lift your designers up by creating a culture of support that focuses on their strengths, provides mentorship and growth opportunities
  • Keep your designers around by communicating their career trajectory, providing management and other training, and empowering them to do their best work
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Jeff Gothelf

Scaling Lean: Project, Program, Portfolio

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Jeff Gothelf

What You’ll Learn

  • Understand objectives and key results (OKRs) that keep the customer at the center of the conversation, at all levels of your organization
  • Get four principles to stay customer-centric and evidence-based as teams and companies grow
  • Learn how to lead growing teams who are interested in working in a Lean/Agile way
  • Discover why there is no silver bullet to scaling Lean/Agile practices
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Kim Goodwin

Preventing the Swoop-and-Poop with Successful Stakeholder Engagement

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Kim Goodwin

What You’ll Learn

  • Identify if your approach is contributing to bad stakeholder behavior
  • Extract the best information from stakeholders early in the process
  • Build your interviewing and communication skills to get to the heart of what they want, and what you need to do to deliver it
  • Engage stakeholders throughout the project to get the feedback you need and help them feel their contribution is important
  • Adjust your stakeholder approach based on the organizational culture in which they work
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Abby Covert

Making Sense of Research Findings

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Abby Covert

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn what you can do before, during, and after research activities to make gathering insights more efficient later on
  • Gain confidence in breaking down large sets of research data into manageable areas to focus on
  • Improve the way you communicate research insights to clients and colleagues
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Brad Frost

Working With Atomic Design

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Brad Frost

What You’ll Learn

  • Identify the basic design elements that make up your website
  • Use these elements to create smart, scalable, maintainable designs
  • Convince everyone back at the office to ditch ad-hoc design and embrace a pattern-based workflow
  • Unite disparate teams and departments to build designs that deliver a consistent experience across multiple platforms
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Maria Giudice

Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design

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Maria Giudice

In Rise of the DEO, Maria Giudice and her coauthor explore the intersection of creativity and business smarts. They look at how and why this unlikely coupling produces leaders capable of solving our increasingly complex business problems.

At Warm Gun, Maria will lead a conversation that focuses on techniques, tactics, and intuitions that create stronger leaders. She’ll untangle the characteristics and qualities that distinguish great creative leaders. She’ll introduce you to today’s role models and rule breakers. Join us to uncover your own skills to build, revive, or reinvent the next generation of great companies.
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PJ McCormick

Fostering Effective Collaboration in a Global Environment

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PJ McCormick

PJ’s team recently transitioned from reactive, agency-like project work to a proactive, self-driven roadmap. They had to figure out a way to collaborate efficiently across 5 different disciplines—and a bunch of time zones—to make awesome products for their customers. And, they had to convince everyone else at Amazon to get with the program.

Find out from PJ how talking and listening can be the key to creating meaningful change. He’ll share everything his team learned about winning allies, building responsive systems and processes, and meeting the needs of a user base that spans the globe.

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Christina Wodtke

Accomplish Big Goals With Objectives & Key Results

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Christina Wodtke

Christina Wodtke has devoted her career to tackling monumental tasks. She’s helped grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, and the New York Times. Nowadays she works with startups and entrepreneurs, sharing her strategies for success and inspiring them to pursue big goals and outlandish dreams.

Christina knows how to inspire diverse teams to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, ultra-challenging goal. Hint: It’s not about to-do lists and accountability charts. How do you get your team to commit to bold goals? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and disappointments? And is failure ever a viable option?

Christina Wodtke will demonstrate how she uses objectives and key results to help teams tackle and realize big goals in a methodical way, leaving nothing to chance. You’ll learn the beauty of a good fail and how regular check-ins can keep you on track to success.

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Abi Jones

Helping Teams Become Design Independent

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Abi Jones

Abi Jones has always been about independence. She’s been helping folks feel capable from the very beginning—when she taught third grade. Abi’s more recent work on the MySpace redesign team and her current gig as an interaction designer for Google Books support that same goal: giving people confidence to tackle the hard challenges.

She recently worked with a Google team to design a flexible, reliable feedback system. Abi was reminded that jumping into a pre-existing team is hard—especially when it’s a team of engineers and you’re a designer. How do you define your role and create a model that works? How far do you take a design before production? How do you give them the skills to continue once you leave?

In her debut presentation, Abi will share how creating and modeling product principles, scoping iteration, and trusting specialists (like writers) are all part of the magic. You’ll hear about the challenges that reshaped her process.

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Kim Goodwin

You’re Hired! Strategies for Finding the Perfect Fit

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Kim Goodwin

In the UX world, Kim Goodwin is a big deal. A regular on the UX conference circuit. Bestselling author of “Designing for the Digital Age.” Team builder and UX evangelizer at PatientsLikeMe. Kim knows design—and designers. She’s hired, fired, and coached loads of them for her own teams and for clients, too.

Kim understands the challenges of a competitive job market. The candidate with the most impressive résumé isn’t always the smartest choice. It’s not always easy to tell the diamond-in-the-rough from the shiny-but-fake. But Kim’s figured out how to find the hidden gems.

Kim shares insights that help folks on both sides of the interview table. Learn how to define and articulate the skills you’re hiring for, and how to build a framework for evaluating candidates. Understanding what makes a good hire will help job seekers present themselves to hiring managers in the most effective manner.

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Kevin Hoffman

A Practical Approach to Better Project Kickoffs

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Kevin Hoffman

What You’ll Learn

  • Make them a critical jumping-off point for your design process
  • Know where planning research, like asking the hard questions of your stakeholders can reveal the hopes and fears of your project
  • Understand how integrating good facilitation into projects from the start will better manage the dynamics that can derail your process
  • Recognize what kickoff meeting tools & techniques are effective at producing actionable outcomes