Organize to Commit

Work at the highest span of influence you can in the organization, and you will maximize the return your work brings to the organization. Avoid optimizing decisions at the lowest possible level, maximizing your group’s return instead of maximizing the organization’s return. Instead, optimize the decisions for the organization.

Maximize Value for the Organization, Not Our Departments
by Tony and Joyce, Director, Software Development and Director, Software Quality
Tony and Joyce

As directors, we each have two primary responsibilities: to make sure our groups are producing at the highest level of capacity and to build that capacity. But we had problems with each other, because our measurements were about our individual capacities, ...

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