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 threadAndrea Magnorsky 😹 🦙Aug 31, 2023
@gvwilson @hazelweakly this is super similar to https://bytesizearchitecturesessions.com/ :D
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Show threadMarc Kalmes has moved
@roundcrisis Right!? I had the same impression 😁
Aug 31, 2023 at 5:24pmWeb
Show threadAndrea Magnorsky 😹 🦙Aug 31, 2023
@mkalmes I was always surprised that other people didn't land in the same place. Maybe just people haven't been writing about it (fair enouhg)
Show threadMarc Kalmes has movedAug 31, 2023
@roundcrisis Communicating ideas with words alone is super hard. Visuelles help me to better understand what’s being discussed. Doing it with #ByteSizeArchitectureSessions is a helpful framework. 🙏