Agreed with Jeff regarding the need for BA/product management to be represented. Also, it seems odd that the engineering counterpart to the form and behaviour spec is a requirements document - a technical architecture spec would seem more appropriate.
Nice diagram, though. Now if only more organizations had orgcharts that looked like that... :) That being said, I'm now wondering if this is really the "holy grail" of organizational design from a UX person's point of view. It seems like the line separating design and engineering could easily become a wall over which specs are thrown in either direction, rather than a collaboration between the two. Dmitry On 10/4/07, Wilson, Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a good question -- someone else brought that up to. > (design design design) > > I think mention of implementation on the engineering side is > important -- I'll add that in. It started off as a "design only" > diagram, but I may evolve it to be much more. > > Thanks for the feedback! > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff White > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:34 AM > To: IXDA list > Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who designs what? (see diagram...) > > It's not the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I saw that in the mirror this > morning. Ha! > > Seems like some mention of business analysis responsibilities should be in > engineering - or do you have a separate product mgmt group that handles > that? Also, engineering is design design design - no mention of code > development or management. Is the diagram supposed to be inclusive of all > responsibilities - or just the ones involving some sort of design? > > Jeff > > On 10/4/07, Wilson, Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Given that "design" is a very overloaded and broad term, I often > > find it necessary to communicate what "product design" is responsible for, > > and "who designs what". > > > > To that end, I created this very basic diagram. I'd love to get feedback > > from members of the list. > > The purpose is to spell out who is designing what and provide an > > indication of: > > > > 1) structure of the two depts. > > > > 2) responsibilities of the two depts. > > > > 3) communication between the two depts. > > > > What did I leave out? Is this the stupidest thing you've ever seen? > > (obviously this would be part of a discussion and not intended to stand > > by itself, although I suppose > > I could evolve it to become more self-explanatory) > > > > [cid:[email protected]] > > > > > > > > Russell Wilson | Director of Product Design > > NetQoS, Inc. | 5001 Plaza on the Lake, Austin, TX 78746 > > 512.334.3725 (v) | 512.422.4155 (m) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > NetQoS: Performance Experts > > www.netqos.com<http://www.netqos.com/> > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help > Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe > Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help > Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe > Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
