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Evolve Team Structures with Organizational Sensing

The design . . . is almost never the best possible, [so] the prevailing system concept may need to change. Therefore, flexibility of organization is important to effective design.

Mel Conway, “How Do Committees Invent?”

Modern organizations face huge challenges in responding to rapid changes in regulatory and market conditions, customer and user demands, rapidly-moving trends, and powerful shifts in technology capabilities. A successful modern organization needs to be able to shape-shift to deal with these changing circumstances by designing for adaptability. Therefore, when designing modern organizations for building and running software systems, the most important thing is not the ...

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