Understand How You Work Together Now
In very large organizations, you might realize you work in functional silos. I know of a large organization of more than a thousand product developers organized as shown in the figure.
Note that the teams are silo teams. In fact, the directors managed pools of people as resources. They never thought twice about moving people from one project to another, or having people work on several projects at one time.
When they wanted to manage their project portfolio, they had several decisions:
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What projects did they want people to work on?
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Which teams did people work on? They had to assign people to work on just ...
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