Learn more about teamwork with this collection
How to focus on the present moment
How to cultivate empathy and understanding towards others
How to set personal and professional goals
7
6 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
7
10 reads
Sharing code, artefacts, and infrastructure can often be managed at a vertical level - but the drag introduced should be carefully monitored.
7
34 reads
Good technical design decisions are very dependent on context.
Teams that regularly work together on common goals are able to communicate regularly and negotiate changes quickly. These teams exhibit a strong force of alignment, and can make technology and design decis...
8
163 reads
7
30 reads
7
4 reads
7
7 reads
7
33 reads
Within a domain we have multiple teams, each being responsible for some capabilities and underlying systems within the domain.
Sometimes this is perfectly aligned, with each team being custodians of a neatly bounded set of systems. More often this is imperfect in reality, with custodi...
7
33 reads
Shared code at a whole of organisation level is limited to highly stable, highly useful things. Mostly these things are limited to libraries which can be distributed and versioned, and changed carefully.
Shared infrastructure is similar - at an org-wide level, shared infrastructure must hav...
7
7 reads
7
33 reads
When we zoom out to all of the organisation - the force of alignment between the verticals is very weak indeed. It is quite hard to make changes atomically across the landscape - mostly because the prioritisation of work for each vertical is deliberately independent.
Coordinating...
8
14 reads
Technology governance and what is considered ‘good architecture’ is mostly considered with a ‘one size fits all’ approach.
7
98 reads
In the middle ground we have our vertical structure, with multiple domains. The social distance between the people in one domain and another is getting stretched.
This makes negotiation and reaching alignment more strained and slower, and so necessarily this impacts our technology choices...
7
22 reads
CURATED FROM
Understanding the strong and weak forces of team architecture
“
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates