Hands up if you know this operating model will fail. It’s not even official and I can already see how short sighted some of the changes are.
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I know one thing that’s changed with this new operating model, or maybe it’s when LC showed up, we do a lot more business with ourselves. The number of dashboards, reports and minutiae that’s gotten spun up is amazing. Talk about micro managing. No need to worry about getting laid off anytime soon. This is a blessing in disguise. We’ve all got plenty of work to do writing epics and features that are the equivalent of novels, with more required data being added to them daily.
This operating model? Did anything really change? A few people EOIed or were left standing, some people got shuffled, but it seems we still have almost the same leadership for the most part and are doing the same work with maybe only more process in place.
It's like the designers had no technical nor business acumen... oh wait.
Meanwhile we're being "efficient" with an army of implementers to track dashboards.
#1 TSR, here we come!!!
All I can say is thank goodness we simplified things from the last operating model by getting rid of Chapters … that has certainly made a huge difference. BTW, shhhh, don’t tell anyone that having a centralized DNI group is the same thing as having a Chapter.
A few try-hards have taped some swim lane charts to their office walls, but most everyone else is depending on relationships and "knowing a guy who can help" versus anything else. The next few years will be challenging for new people and those without big networks. Also, who has updated their job title in Teams? As far as I can tell, you need an IT ticket to do that, so nobody does. Again, you need relationships.
Nobody knows what they’re supposed to be doing and the whole company seems to be operating only because people continue to do what they were doing before even if it’s not supposed to be their job now.