Structure Drives Behaviour... Minimum Viable Organisation
summary
Argues that traditional hierarchies reassert themselves and block agility, then describes implementing an adaptive organisation at Agilesphere (≈100 people, ~£15M revenue) using the Viable Systems Model, a leadership kanban with incoming/backlog/comms columns, and decomposed micro-roles (e.g. client-specific accounts payable) tied to service owners. Shows a concrete fix: reassigning AP into client-facing micro-roles recovers stalled invoices (three months aged debt) and claims the model scales, increases transparency, and keeps teams empowered and accountable.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 1:04scaling the engineering practices
- 5:54focus on the minimum
- 23:00brake requirements into small pieces
- 30:29break it down into constituents parts
- 38:27developing micro role descriptions
- 45:28implement an adaptive organisation
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