Company's changing to helix management structure. Groups are moving around like chess. My manager still isn't sure what is happening.
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Relax. SOP for this company. Announce reorg. Use the same weak blocks to shore it up, spin wheels on how to direct the failure at lowest components. Helix pathetically attempts to compare itself to the DNA structure. MBAs are science stupid. Pundits love to compare the helix structure to DNA model. Science stupid. Helix is a chain structure.. which fail points are any link in the chain. Now all the weak incompetent blocks will dramatically effect the entire chain. The model is a horizontal structure.. same formation any collapsed structure ultimately rests in. Good luck ..
For well over a decade changes to the actual management structure have been a combination of opportunistic sycophancy, stopgap emergency appointments due to attrition (plug the holes in the dam by using the thumbs of management which would normally otherwise be occupied by being up their own fundaments), bringing in buddies from former companies, and DEI/squeeze-on-the-side entitlement promotions. Because there really isn't much of a requirement for talent, experience, or intelligence for most management roles it's pretty easy to just fill the empty slots with whatever is most convenient or has the lowest chance of blackmail evidence coming forth. They just look for warm bodies willing to sacrifice what little ethical or moral fortitude they have regardless of actual experience in the roles they're expected to perform - the positions are filled by ambition and greed rather than knowledge and talent.
This is why you have Project Managers with literally zero Programming or Development experience running Development Organizations.
Someone in another thread put it best, which I'll copy/paste -
[@OP+1eKmjyhf - The "average" year is usually just One Major Org Change, six months of every affected BU flailing around trying to re-route and re-define processes, five months of slowly increasing productivity as everything smooths out, and finally a month of wondering what the next Major Org Change will be.] <--THIS is the only Management Structure that has remained a constant over many years.
This company isn't changing their management structure, at least not intentionally. There's not enough competence at the upper levels to successfully plan out and implement a complete hierarchy change such as a move to helix management. What you think helix management is, as someone else stated, is a continual state of chaos and churn. Which is exactly what we've always had. So, no there's not going to be any major organizational changes which haven't already happened repeatedly over the years.
Nobody in a helix management structure is sure what's happening. It's a constant, ridiculous chaos experiment that doesn't work and will be reverted within 5 years.