Java Posse #446

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Roundup ‘13 - Team Organizational Structure

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• Horizontal vs. Vertical

• http://smallbusiness.chron.com/vertical-structure-vs-horizontal-structure-organization-4904.html

• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_h_orizontal_and_vertical_organizational_structure

• http://www.organizationalchampions.com/blog/?tag=structure

• Holacracy

• http://www.bloomberg.com/video/what-s-the-hoopla-over-holacracy-in-business-_jrZHiaGQdKDPmQj8hs95Q.html

• http://holacracy.org/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy

• http://www.reinventing-business.com/2014/02/mindfulness-and-holacracy.html

• Refactoring Organizations

• http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Business_and_Organization_Refactoring

• Organizational Debt

• http://www.brainloaf.com/2012/02/13/is-organizational-debt-bankrupting-your-productivity/

• http://theagileexecutive.com/tag/organizational-debt/

• Conway’s Law

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

• Specialist vs. Generalist

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_species

• http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2012/10/15/should-you-be-a-generalist-or-a-specialist/

• Efficiency Movement - Fredrick Taylor

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency_Movement

• Measuring Organizational Efficiency

• http://smallbusiness.chron.com/organizational-effectiveness-vs-organizational-efficiency-22413.html

• Teams and Tribes

• http://www.tomandgeriscrum.com/2013/05/24/the-importance-of-tribe-for-agile-sustainability/

• Team - reporting

• http://www.rallydev.com/product-feature/reporting-analytics

• Tribe - domain/feature/product

• http://theagiletribe.wordpress.com/

• Flat Structure

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization

• Development Sprint

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(software_development)

• Refactor When Blocked

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring

• Banishing “That’s not my job”

• http://www.hcareers.com/us/resourcecenter/tabid/306/articleid/958/default.aspx

• Horizontal Integration

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_integration

• Cohesion Across Verticals

• http://www.fragilestates.org/2012/03/12/horizontal-versus-vertical-social-cohesion-why-the-differences-matter/

• Google 20%

• http://www.wired.com/business/2013/08/20-percent-time-will-never-die/

• Technical Debt Reduction

• http://www.ontechnicaldebt.com/blog/5-steps-to-reduce-technical-debt-when-using-agile/

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