{"id":586,"date":"2022-11-06T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verwaltungsgestaltung.de\/notizen\/?p=586"},"modified":"2022-11-06T23:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T22:38:26","slug":"week-27-at-the-digital-service-notes-for-31-october-4-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verwaltungsgestaltung.de\/notizen\/2022\/11\/06\/week-27-at-the-digital-service-notes-for-31-october-4-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Week #27 at the Digital Service: Notes for 31 October\u20134 November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Off to London. On Tuesday, I hopped on the train again to learn how to become a better design leader. Using my annual learning and development budget at the Digital Service, I attended the only conference that focuses explicitly on design leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Leading Design<\/a>\u2019 in London\u2019s Barbican Centre felt like an old-style conference format. One talk of 20 to 30 minutes followed the next \u2013 from morning to evening for two days. There were no interactive sessions or hands-on workshops and relatively little time for questions. That wasn\u2019t necessarily bad, though; just nothing I\u2019m used to anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a single-track conference, there was nothing you could miss, and there were no decisions to make. Just sit and listen. In between, there were plenty of breaks for exchange with fellow participants. Most of them were leading teams of designers in organisations of various sizes \u2013 from boutique consultancies to large-scale corporates. Attendees from public-sector organisations were in a small minority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barbican Conservatory offered a unique green backdrop for long conversations over coffee, lunch, and afternoon drinks. More publicly recorded, I tried to tweet out the more noteworthy bits \u2013 as long as Twitter lasts and these tweets remain embedded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking notes from other design leaders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bumble\u2019s Head of Product Design, Oliver Eliel, shared Julie Zhuo\u2019s levels of leadership. I should revisit some sections of her book on making a manager, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Levels of leadership: @OliiEliel<\/a> quoting @joulee<\/a>\u2019s categorisation at #LDConf<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/5BBJhMyI8f<\/a><\/p>— Martin Jordan (he\/him) ? ? (@Martin_Jordan) November 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>