Hazel WeaklyAug 30, 2023

One of the hardest and most valuable things you can do as a company is the following:

1. Have a fully up to date org chart
2. Have a diagram that is not the org chart that accurately reflects how work flows through the company
3. Have an up to date and accurate diagram and explanation of what the company does and how it does it (architecture, revenue funnels, business value streams, code-bases)

Scaling decision making is *impossible* without a shared context to build alignment off of.

Show threadGreg WilsonAug 30, 2023
@hazelweakly Fun exercise: give everyone on the team a piece of paper, a pencil, and 5 minutes to draw a concept map of what the team is supposed to be doing (or an architecture diagram of what it's working on, or...). Everyone does theirs independently, then you count 3-2-1 and everyone reveals. The next hour is always filled with really useful discussion (sometimes quite loud) about differences between different people's mental models and understandings.
Show threadMark Levison

@gvwilson @hazelweakly

Same exercise is useful for Product Vision

Aug 31, 2023 at 4:07pmWeb