Principles and practices, guilds and cross-functional teams
February 18, 2019
I have been involved in many organizational changes that turn the organization sideways. From functional departments to cross-functional teams, from projects and completing activities to continuous delivery and focus on reaching effects.
Just about always this creates some initial confusion around where decisions get made and how the old ways fit into the new. Quite often worry about chaos breaks out.
For example;
Who is in charge of the overarching architecture, now that each team is deciding everything by themselves?
I realize that I’ve done a bad job describing how this is going to work. The other week I found myself describing this with a pretty simple model that I wanted to share.
Disclaimer
I’m pretty sure this is not news at all and I’m making a pale copy of something brilliant. But … it’s my copy and I’m standing by it.
TL;DR
If you are...