Learning Objectives 1. Identify five traditional organizational structures and the pros and cons of each 2. Describe the product-team structure and explain why it is a prototype for a more open, agile organizational structure 3. Explain five ways improvements have been sought in traditional organizational structures 4. Describe what is meant by agile, virtual organizations 11-2 Learning Objectives (contd.) 5. Explain how outsourcing can create agile, virtual organizations, along with its pros and cons 6. Describe boundaryless organizations and why they are important 7. Explain why organizations of the future need to be 11-3 ambidextrous learning organizations Organizational Structure ...
Class policies on teamwork Everyone should be doing roughly the same amount of work each sprint and should not be doing all of their work the day before a deadline Grading plan and syllabus have additional details Ideally everyone should be able to design the parts of the system they are responsible for implementing, but since the pieces must fit together you need to agree on how to handle conflicts By team consensus / vote By the choice of team leader(s) Peer evaluation forms at the end of Sprints 2-6 See class website for example Talk to the instructor privately ...
MCKINSEY 7S FRAMEWORK – XYZ CASE STUDY In the one slide brief, the boxes should indicate how well aligned each element is or if there’s room for improvement XYZ requires more technical knowledge in Strategy XYZ’s Strategy is clearly defined and critical order to best leverage the planned staff are aware of how it translates to their technological infrastructure overhaul activities Skills Structure Flat hierarchical structure. Team is highly Shared While critical business units are clear, XYZ’s motivated due to in part an Agile Values operations team is silo’d from the other management style. departments Style ...