My Kind of Self Organizing Organization

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

prokoptôn

A person making progress. Even though one has not obtained the wisdom of a sage; when appropriate actions are increasingly chosen, fewer and fewer mistakes will be made, and one will be prokoptôn (προκόπτων), making progress.


By Mike, 2024-03-31