Carbon Zero Accelerator
Designers leading the delivery approach
The Challenge
With such an agressive timeline (6 months), the team needed to navigate the complex technical/data environment while simultaneously delivering developer-ready designs. The design team took the lead in defining the pipelines of work for the delivery team, and I was responsible for making this happen.
The Approach
In order to keep things manageable, we broke down each sprint into themes
Every sprint would focus on one particular part of the flow, with the designers working to stay 1 sprint ahead of the delivery peeps
In order to keep within our aggressive timeline, we set the constraint of ensuring our designs could be delivered within the following sprint (and avoiding any flow onto the sprint following)
The design and delivery peeps had to work very closely to make sure our designs were feasible, the calculation methodology was understood and the major unknowns resolved prior to delivery sprints
We also had to be quite ruthless about our scope - it needed to all be achievable within a 3 week sprint
The Outcome
The design team was consistently ahead of the delivery team, avoiding any bottlenecks, and enabling the delivery team to meet their defined sprint goals.
Our delivery game plan