{"product_id":"9780123854971","title":"User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003eThe 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 work-life balance. Furthermore, it discusses the essential skills needed in leading an effective team and developing a communication plan.  \u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cp\u003e*Gives a UX leadership boot-camp from putting together a winning team, to giving them a driving focus, to acting as their spokesman, to handling difficult situations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Full of practical advice and experiences for managers and leaders in virtually any area of the user experience field\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Contains best practices, real-world stories, and insights from UX leaders at IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and many more!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elsevier Science","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079694598384,"sku":"9780123854971","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780123854971_p0.jpg?v=1763638650","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780123854971","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}