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What under if McKinsey will start pushing this at other orgs?
by candiddevmike 3y ago
What under if McKinsey will start pushing this at other orgs?
- refurb 3y agoIt's basically what tech has been doing for a while. Or at least a derivation of it. Agile, self-managed team, "retrospectives", "scrums". At least that's how it was sold to my employer when they had the same change not long ago. "This is what Google does and they are innovative. Don't you want to be innovative like Google?" Checks all the boxes a CEO wants to hear.
- MForster 3y agoThis is not at all what Google does, though.
- Voultapher 3y agoOne could also argue that Google by and large doesn't innovate, they mostly acquire the innovative stuff.
- CalChris 3y agoIt is, however, what Google tried. https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-managers-30f73e862ff4 https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-manage...
- al_borland 3y agoMy company just called the managers, “product owners”, and the project managers, “scrum masters”, and said we were now Agile and doing Scrum. Nothing about it was self-managed. We haven’t had a retrospective in 3 years, despite my insistence that we desperately need them.
- refurb 3y agoHuh, my company pushed the Agile/scrum/retrospective thing at the same time as talking about "fit for purpose" teams that would be formed based on need/skills, not the old structure (this team works on this only). Since specific teams were now gone, less need for managers. The idea was agile/scrum/retros was a way to manage the "fluidity".