Silo metrics
Where exactly did the term “silo” come from, anyway? Organizational silos are Bad Things. They create barriers to getting work done. But why silo? What does a building used to...… (1 comment)
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The Silo Height Index Project
...as my process-oriented consulting brethren recommend. No, taken as a whole, your average enterprise seems bent on devolving into a collection of semi-autonomous squabbling siloes. It’s like this: If OODA...… (5 comments)
Why Agile is agile
...for within-silo decisions, because for the most part release teams and the software they support will be focused inside one organizational silo. Also, like it or not, siloes are more...… (1 comment)
The case for centralized control
...this situation, where it’s the entire story: Imagine you run a perfectly siloed organization. Perfectly siloed means all responsibilities are clearly allocated to specific organizational units, each organizational unit is...… (6 comments)
Change fatigue
...the second to pay for non-strategic opportunities, and the last to, if you’ll forgive the self-indulgence, keep the joint running. Silo-oriented planning: Silo-oriented planning takes tactical independence to the next...… (4 comments)
When simplicity and accuracy collide, simplicity wins
...the siloization problem, explains that when this happens the solution is to fire the worst offender and his or her closest supporters. The siloization is a response to their shenanigans....… (6 comments)
Business as organism, mechanism, or ecosystem
...trusts a wolf is a dead deer. And so, organizational ecosystems devolve to silos within silos within silos. It’s no way to run a railroad. Or any other organization, from...… (8 comments)
Competitors, mechanics, referees, and economists
...They preside over a collection of independent actors, each with a different opinion of what matters (their organizational silo and, to a lesser extent, the silos their silo depends on)...… (10 comments)
What’s the point?
...make the organization’s leaders interdependent. Otherwise, leaders will make their numbers at each others’ expense, the organization will fragment into silos, and nobody will understand why the system collapsed, because...…
When organizing large programs, don’t be incoherent
...coordination is required so projects don’t run into each other, because there are more different kinds of inter-project dependency than just finish-to-start and its brethren. Silo-ization: What, you thought large...… (11 comments)