» Your products will reflect your organisational structure (Conway’s Law)

» You can structure your teams around a central function, or as self-contained business units

» Periodically re-evaluate the right mix of innovation and optimisation for your organisation

PRODUCTHEAD: Job interviews are rubbish / Least evil genAI company / The Great Flattening

» Job interviews are a terrible way to assess how someone will perform in role

» All genAI companies are evil, but some are less evil

» Accumulated inefficiency has come back to bite organisations – what to do about it

#prodmgmt #generativeAI #interviews #job #organisationalStructure

📖 Read more: https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-job-interviews-are-rubbish/

PRODUCTHEAD: Structuring teams for the work — team topologies and taxonomies

» Organisational changes will reveal weak spots in the current ways of working before you adapt them

» Structure teams differently based on the nature of the work

» There is value in using shared language to describe how teams differ

#prodmgmt #context #organisationalStructure #teamTopologies

📖 Read more: https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-structuring-teams-for-the-work-team-topologies-and-taxonomies/

"Bureaucratic organisational structures are completely unsuited to dealing with [unexpected events] because decision-makers are too far removed from the coalface (literally!). This is perhaps the most important insight to come out of the Tavistock coal mining studies."

Kailash Awati

https://eight2late.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/from-the-coalface-an-essay-on-the-early-history-of-sociotechnical-systems/

#OrganisationalStructure