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A short presentation I did for the stanford business school on scaling software development orgs
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ScaleSuccessive stages of letting go
@chfry
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” -Kierkegaard
Topics• Hiring• Autonomous Teams• Information Dispersal• Economics• Organizational Hacks• Iteration• Learning Organization• Structure & Repetition• Invest in Leadership• Being a public figure• Socialize / Ceremony / Celebrate
“Hire the best and get out of their way”
What is your philosophy of leadership?
How much direct management?
How hands off should you be?
Everyone is an executive
How would you run a 10 person, 100 person, 1000 person organization?
Let’s design
What is the unit of management?
Autonomous Teams
What is the unit of management?
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Information Dispersal & Communication
Everyone is an executive - Drucker
Leadership is communication
Listen -> Decide -> Communicate @dickc
To create autonomy push as much information as you can to the leaf nodes
Economics
Imagine you are the mayor of a small town
You should break every year or so
The job of the hierarchy is to defeat the hierarchy
Monarchy and Democracy
Organizational hacks
Innovative algorithms that invert the economics
OOM AgileCMP
Organizational hacks
What is something you’ve always wanted to try?
Iteration
Get to 1.0 as soon as possible - Edit mode
Iterate / Learn
Learning Organization
Build an org that learns through honesty, retrospectives and data
Plato vs Aristotle
Structure & Repetition
Use just too little structure
Build a regular rhythm
Invest in leadership
@dickc runs a class on management for every new manager
Focus on leadership
Educate
Being a public figure
You are on stage, all the time
You own the perception of your work
Socialize / Ceremony / Celebrate
Companies are networks of relationships between human beings
Thank you!
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