$Organizational Dynamics & Structure

This hub covers how teams and organizations actually function, the role of structure and hierarchy, and why coordination matters at scale.

Teams & Teamwork

What makes a real team vs. a group of people:

• A team is not a group of people
• Brainstorming only works with preconceived knowledge

Structure & Autonomy

Why structure matters and what happens without it:

• Autonomy without structure consistently produces informal hierarchy
• Distributed decision-making in a traditional hierarchy is usually dead on arrival because of legacy power structures

The PM Role

Understanding product management as both solution and symptom:

• The PM role is necessary at scale as a coordination role
• The PM role fills the vacuum left by a lack of clear organisational systems
• Software engineers should be involved in product decisions

Related

• [[ZETTELKASTEN/MAIN NOTES/HUB NOTES/$Evolutionofrolesinsoftwareengineering\parallel$Evolution of roles in software engineering]] - How roles evolved with technology constraints
• Pull Requests are just a tool - Process matters more than tools