How would I organize a company or organization if I had the opportunity to do so? Good question, I don’t really have a clear answer how that would look like, but I have an idea.
The short answer
I am heavily leaning on the concept of self-organization with team of teams arranged like an onion. The outer onion layer is the customer-facing tier. This tier consists of cross-functional delivery teams pulling work from the customer. Each team would have their own income and expenses. There would be no budgeting and no time-reporting (unless when sick, on parental leave, etc). There would be no hourly charges, just teams selling “value” preferably fixed-price. The next layer would be the first-line enabler tier. These teams have the delivery teams as their customer or
Ever since the “enabler” team role