User Experience Management: Essential Skills For Leading Effective UX Teams

User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams

User Experience Management Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams deals with specific issues associated with managing diverse user experience UX skills often in corporations with a largely engineering culture Part memoir and part handbook it explains what it means to lead a UX team and examines the management issues of hiring inheriting terminating layoffs interviewing and candidacy and downsizing The book offers guidance on building and creating a UX team as well as equipping and focusing the team It also considers ways of nurturing the team from coaching and performance reviews to conflict management and creating worklife balance Furthermore it discusses the essential skills needed in leading an effective team and developing a communication plan This book will be valuable to new managers and leaders more experienced managers and anyone who is leading or managing UX groups or who is interested in assuming a leadership role in the future Gives a UX leadership bootcamp from putting together a winning team to giving them a driving focus to acting as their spokesman to handling difficult situations Full of practical advice and experiences for managers and leaders in virtually any area of the user experience field Contains best practices realworld stories and insights from UX leaders at IBM Microsoft SAP and many more