2. What Does an Organization Do? MAGIC! Bob, can you help me here? Maybe Carl can help. Can I act on this? Info Carl Here’s the nugget of info you need. Alice More Info Bob September 5, 2011 2
3. Hey! You Got Economics in my Software Engineering! Keynesian Austrian September 5, 2011 3
4. I am not an Economist (nor do I play one on TV) Keynesian Austrian Knowledge flows down Knowledge flows up September 5, 2011 4
8. What We Did Interviewed numerous developers, architects, managers, executives, etc Part of a larger project to build tools to support the complete software delivery process September 5, 2011 8
9. General Findings Projects had tried to work bottom up or top down, but failed Often time there was one important cog This person was well known Not necessarily established rank Significant pull with external stakeholders Knowledge of the process We call this person an intercessor September 5, 2011 9
10. Where it Gets Messy… Sometimes managers were not aware of what intercessor did Sometimes developers were not aware of what intercessor did Intercessor may leave the organization and no one may know Is there a way to empirically discover the intercessor? September 5, 2011 10
Notas del editor
Talk about other models of organizations, such as garbage can, distributed constraint satisfaction, etc
These are not the only views, but they are the prominent views. These two concepts came up quite a bit with regards to government fiscal stimuli.
We can initially have a nice layout for our team, and this may work with initial constraintsAny software that exists in an enterprise will have some issues with external stakeholders
We can initially have a nice layout for our team, and this may work with initial constraintsAny software that exists in an enterprise will have some issues with external stakeholders