In one of my previous blog articles, Musings on Conway's Law, I started to explore the possible relationship between org structures and the systems that they create. I looked at two interesting studies that tried to dig deeper into the concept to see if there was any hard data to support Conway's claim. From what I can see I think we can say that there are related factors that have been shown to correlate, statistically speaking, but I don't think we have been given a real ha

I’ve been making this prediction for a while now and I thought why not blog it so I get it on the record. If I’m right I get bragging rights and if I’m wrong .. who cares! Seriously though my reason for making this prediction is, I hope, to provide a different viewpoint - one that I don't see made that often. Operating Models and the Industrial Age The concept of an operating model is relatively new for me. As an IT guy operating systems have been more my thing. But not any m