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> As organizational complexity increases, design debt and responsibility becomes diffused among larger and larger groups of people. Leading to the bizarre situa
by CivBase 6y ago
> As organizational complexity increases, design debt and responsibility becomes diffused among larger and larger groups of people. Leading to the bizarre situation where no individual has power or responsibility over anything specifically.
This is extremely true in my experience, but how can you fight against this as an organization scales? Just simplify the org structure and define strict definitions for what each level is responsible for?
- Aeolun 6y agoVery small teams with a very specific area of responsibility. The moment you get whole departments involved you’ve already lost.
- anaerobicover 6y agoBut then inevitably you have either overlap or conflict between these small teams, because one of them needs something that's within the other's responsibility. Larger structures necessarily form.