Designing the Landing Gear Mid-flight

Talk at Leading Design London 2018

Alastair Simpson describes how Atlassian scaled its design organization from six designers in 2012 to nearly two hundred by 2018 while continuing to ship on mature products rather than greenfield work. The Leading Design London talk reflects on lessons from rapid headcount growth, maintaining quality, and redesigning ways of working inside a large product company. It frames design leadership challenges when growth happens mid-flight on live platforms.

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