11:00 every organization design choice is a choice to strengthen certain communication links and you automatically weaken other communication links so the organization design question is which of the communication links am i trying to optimize if I've got terrible communications between and engineering and manufacturing I need to have an organization structure where I have manufacturing people located in engineering and engineering people located in manufacturing I need to work on the links that have a lot of information that needs to flow and a high tendency to corrupt that information and so rather than the traditional approach of draw a chart and see what the flavor of the month is right I think it's much better to go back to basic principles of saying these organization choices are creating needs for communication where do I want the really good communications to be 31:00 I have the need for mechanical engineering. Do I put 5 engineers together in a matrix form or do I put 1 eng in each program ? A lot depends on what is the variability of the demand for that service if you pretty much have a constant demand for the mechanical engineer on the program, enough work to keep the guy full-time busy then probably putting the person on the program is going to be the optimum thing to do if you've got real variable bursts of demand you'll actually get better performance by aggregating a group of people and sort of putting them pulling them on the matrix kind of thing more matrix thing They're not sort of an overall answer to that you'll always have engineering organizations that have some of these specialist skills and then you do not want to replicate on every team The killer in most cases of centralizing resources gets back to the metric question classically the centralized resources are being measured by efficiency which causes them to operate at a very high level of loading which produces a disastrous response time for the projects 38:00
I can't wait for the 150page version of Flow ;-)
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every organization design choice is a choice to
strengthen certain communication links and you automatically weaken other communication links
so the organization design question is which of the communication links am i trying to optimize
if I've got terrible communications between and engineering and manufacturing I need to have an organization structure
where I have manufacturing people located in engineering and engineering people located in manufacturing
I need to work on the links that have a lot of information that needs to flow and a high tendency to corrupt that information
and so rather than the traditional approach of draw a chart and see what the flavor of the month is right I think it's much better
to go back to basic principles of saying these organization choices are creating needs for communication
where do I want the really good communications to be
31:00
I have the need for mechanical engineering.
Do I put 5 engineers together in a matrix form or do I put 1 eng in each program ?
A lot depends on what is the variability of the demand for that service
if you pretty much have a constant demand for the mechanical engineer on the program,
enough work to keep the guy full-time busy then probably putting the person on the
program is going to be the optimum thing to do if you've got real variable bursts
of demand you'll actually get better performance by aggregating a group of
people and sort of putting them pulling them on the matrix kind of thing more matrix thing
They're not sort of an overall answer to that you'll always have
engineering organizations that have some of these specialist skills and then you do not want to replicate on every team
The killer in most cases of centralizing resources gets back to the metric question
classically the centralized resources are being measured by efficiency which
causes them to operate at a very high level of loading which produces a
disastrous response time for the projects
38:00