For quite a while we've been aware of the plan to move frontend devs and designers into a consolidated design system team, but over the course of the last fortnight it's gone from "eventually" to "soon" to "NOW".
So with no ceremony whatsoever I find myself in a new team, with different work, and we're immediately going into our first sprint, which is week long (!) and it's all a bit, like… wut?
Don't get me wrong, I'm on board with the substance of all of this: a design system team, cross-product delivery, week-long sprints — these are all good things. It's just a shame that the execution has been so abrupt. If you want to create an environment in which people care about the work and care about each other need to be respectful of those relationships. A good gardener doesn't uproot plants and re-arrange them willy-nilly. I'm going to risk hyperbole and say that there's a violence to it. But hey ho. Needs must.
Following on from my recent