Design files as the source of truth is a strategic error; the cost of design lives in the hand-off gap. DesignOps must move beyond the file to establish the coded component library as the definitive contract for products.
Operating in high-stakes Live Broadcast, I have learnt that the elegant simplicity of a single North Star Metric is a strategic liability. Effective Enterprise growth demands not a single goal, but a tiered, disciplined metric hierarchy that serves as a non-negotiable constraint, forcing alignment and demonstrating true P&L causality from the ground up.
Enterprise Design Systems are products in their own right; their success hinges on strategic governance and an engineer-first adoption model. I discuss our approach to making the system a dependency, not a suggestion, by focusing on tooling and a clear ownership model that scales.