Chapter 3. Organic Teams—Part 1

Skillful managers understand the interdependence between design and emergence. They know that in today's turbulent business environment, their challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.

Fritjof Capra, The Hidden Connections

Because organizations rely on their project teams to execute and deliver on their strategies for creating customer value-added products and services, the task of building an adaptive organization that is responsive to changing customer needs and delivers customer value begins at the project team level. Yet, in most software development organizations, project team structure and operation are based on a linear, mechanistic, factory ...

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