scaling organizations
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A short presentation I did for the stanford business school on scaling software development orgsTRANSCRIPT
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ScaleSuccessive stages of letting go
@chfry
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” -Kierkegaard
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Topics• Hiring• Autonomous Teams• Information Dispersal• Economics• Organizational Hacks• Iteration• Learning Organization• Structure & Repetition• Invest in Leadership• Being a public figure• Socialize / Ceremony / Celebrate
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“Hire the best and get out of their way”
What is your philosophy of leadership?
How much direct management?
How hands off should you be?
Everyone is an executive
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How would you run a 10 person, 100 person, 1000 person organization?
Let’s design
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What is the unit of management?
Autonomous Teams
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Information Dispersal & Communication
Everyone is an executive - Drucker
Leadership is communication
Listen -> Decide -> Communicate @dickc
To create autonomy push as much information as you can to the leaf nodes
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Economics
Imagine you are the mayor of a small town
You should break every year or so
The job of the hierarchy is to defeat the hierarchy
Monarchy and Democracy
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Organizational hacks
Innovative algorithms that invert the economics
OOM AgileCMP
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Organizational hacks
What is something you’ve always wanted to try?
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Iteration
Get to 1.0 as soon as possible - Edit mode
Iterate / Learn
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Learning Organization
Build an org that learns through honesty, retrospectives and data
Plato vs Aristotle
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Structure & Repetition
Use just too little structure
Build a regular rhythm
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Invest in leadership
@dickc runs a class on management for every new manager
Focus on leadership
Educate
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Being a public figure
You are on stage, all the time
You own the perception of your work
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Socialize / Ceremony / Celebrate
Companies are networks of relationships between human beings
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Thank you!