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APIs are important part of (network) organization

As network organization is evolutionary and must be constantly adjusted to actual value being delivered you must have evolutionary architecture. Both approaches are aimed to decompose “Big Ball of Mud …”

Even though i think it is essential for network organisation company structured in any way will benefit from this type of product architecture.

You can read more about that in this great article…

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Silos

“resources are often divided into silos despite the fact that virtually everyone working in the field acknowledges that solving the problem requires cross-discipline collaboration.”

Quote from the book – Liberating structures

Why do we still divide organization into functional siloses?

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Silos

“resources are often divided into silos despite the fact that virtually everyone working in the field acknowledges that solving the problem requires cross-discipline collaboration.”

Quote from the book – Liberating structures

So why to keep org. structure divided into functional siloses?

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Network organization in a nutshell

Important

Build multi-functional team.

Pick up the problem/challenge/value.

Define whom it’s important for.

Define dependencies.

Define success/failure criteria

Slice it.

Prepare.

Make.

Give it to the world.

Retrieve & analyze feedback.

Keep #6, #7, #8, #9, #10 – cycle short.

Depends (not important)

Process you use – less is more. underestimated cost of spreading heavyweight process accross users.

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Planning method - Syntegration

New planning method - Syntegration

Very interesting work about new tool which claims to produce best possible results when working with a large group. As author states – “Highly pragmatic and innovative tool for knowledge sharing, consensus building and conflict resolution whenever a large number of people is involved: in business, in politics and in every societal body, panel or committee.” Link to original – http://www.jucs.o…

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Constraints On Effective Product Development

Constraints On Effective Product Development #product #network #org #design

Organising yourself as a network of multi-dependent teams helps to solve following constraints and increase effectiveness of product development

Functional Teams

People from different functional areas must be a part of the same team to eliminate all possible “cross departments” activities

Toyota have long eliminated this constraint through their Obeya concept, and unique matrix structure.

Capacit…

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#75 out of 100

Although i am not acting as Agile coach or trainer but surprisingly listed here – 100 Top Agile Blogs in 2015.

Happy and proud to be among great people of agile community. It will definitely encourage me to continue sharing my ideas and thoughts about how to organize work in a company to keep Agile mindset even when you grow from 20 to 600.

Posts that worth taking a look at:

My influencers – htt…

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Network structure - it works

Network structure - it works #orgdesign

It was a long journey of trying to understand what organisational structure is best for dynamic growth, experiments, agility and change.

Value structure – showing benefits of different type of organisation in numbers

Organizational design – problems – explaining what type of problems are introduced with hierarchical growth and why functional departments are not good.

Org. design: value structure

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Scale A => Scale B

Scale A => Scale B. How do you scale? #organization

Experience shows that approaches that worked for Scale A will not work for Scale B and you need to change practices you apply, way to organise work, communicate and etc. You might say it’s obvious, but somehow everybody still tends to stick to what they know and do not challenge themselves.

The need for a change as you grow pretty well described in the video – [iframe src=”https://www.youtube.com…

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Danger of simplification

“Where simplifications fail, causing most damage, is when something nonlinear is simplified with the linear as a substitute.” (from the book – http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto/dp/0812979680)

That’s why project management, scientific management, planning 5 years ahead and similar things should be used as a tool at maximum, not way of thinking. Thinking should be based…

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Negotiation - value and common ground

Negotiation - value and common ground. Know more hints? would love to learn more

Stumbled upon couple of terms related to negotiations. Adding to my good stuff library and sharing it with you.

IMHO, very interesting concepts which can help to keep discussions constructive and encourage to for win/win situation.

I. Find common ground and red lines

“Indaba”(pronounced IN-DAR-BAH), and is used to simplify discussions between many parties. An indaba is designed to allow every…

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Guilds and Community inside a company. Can it work?

Guilds and Community inside a company. Can it work? #community

How Guild works:

1. Conduct Guild days on a weekly basis across whole product development organisation. Agenda and format is random and should be always adapted to the context: conferences, trainings, watching conference, workshops, contribution into shared services… Guild leader is completely responsible for running it.

2. Guild leader is fully dedicated for that job and he is an expert in the…

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When things can get slow? #mngt When all decision making goes only via "Path I" _green_ people a) become a bottleneck b) don't know details, so either have to trust or c) start asking questions to understand by delaying things even more.

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Objectified

Objectified: about product design

Watching objectified film generated lots of insights for myself about product design – https://youtu.be/HlT611TFJvk

People are talking about physical objects, but lots of good things can be applied to software development either.

Here is the definition of a Good design provided by Dieter Rams:

must be innovative

must make product useful

is aesthetic design

will make product understandable

is…

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