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Design and engineering work is distributed.
Decision making is centralized.
The three Part-time Paragon Leads act as owners and facilitators. They partner with designers and engineers via the #paragon-working-group and the weekly Paragon Working Group Meeting to coordinate work and make decisions on the direction of the system.
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Refer to Nathan Curtis’s Team Models for Scaling a Design System for a more thorough exploration of governance models. The image here is adapted from Nathan Curtis' work.
Part-time Paragon Leads
Product Lead | Design Lead | Engineering Lead |
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Design resourcing escalation path: Michael Leary |
Engineer resourcing escalation path: |
Paragon Working Group
The Paragon Working Group is an informal group of volunteer engineers and designers who meet weekly at the Paragon Working Group Meeting and discuss issues in #paragon-working-group Slack.
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Directs the architectural roadmap
Implements the architectural direction: individually, via blended development, or may escalate to theme leadership to assemble a tiger team.
Ensures incoming Paragon bugs are triaged and resolved, as needed
Leveraging time from the working group to triage and support the design system.
Helping to facilitate Paragon Working Group meeting
Ensures engineers are supported in contributing to Paragon
Ensures pull requests are reviewed in a timely manner. Any frontend engineer at edX is permitted to perform code reviews at the discretion of the
.Status colour Green title technical owner May implement new component designs when appropriate
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