The Object Orientation of Teams

The object orientation of teams

Lisa Welchman

@lwelchman

where am I coming from?

first grade – set theory

2nd – 12th - music

Math that makes you hate math

And music that makes you love music

university - music

ALL MEN ARE MO♫RTAL

SOCRATES IS A MAN♫

♬THEREFORE ♩ SOCRATES IS MORTAL

university – philosophy

graduate school - stuff

1990’s - collaboration

add the Internet and the Web

Databases

Semantics

Code

Hypertext

Content

so, this means…

I don’t really know what to think.

But, I do spend a lot of time considering how

things are alike and how they are different—

especially as it relates to information that is online.

And I think about the teams that make it all

possible and how they collaborate.

what I want to say & consider

There is a causal relationship between what we

make and how we work. Is it bi-directional,

faceted?

The digitization and disintegration of our

artifacts has a profound impact on how the

enterprise must work. Classical organizational

hierarchies can’t support this work---we need a

new, quantum, object-oriented model

the causal relationship

between what we make and how we work

monks with a lot of time

http://ow.ly/Jxh2q

programmers

we are what we make

http://thecomputerboys.com/?tag=programmers&paged=2

artisans or slaves?

"Kheops-Pyramid” by Nina Aldin Thune.

which comes first ?

http://www.audubon.org/multimedia/chicken-mg

what leads?

The technology – the way we make it

The need – a pressing concern

The possibility – something bigger

the technology

the need

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muybridge_race_horse_animated.gif

Film - 1915The New York Times, from an interview with D. W. Griffith

“The time will come, and in less than 10 years, when the children in the public schools will be taught practically everything by moving pictures…Imagine a public library of the near future, for instance. There will be long rows of boxes of pillars, properly classified and indexed, of course. At each box a push button and before each box a seat.”

the possibility

what are we digerati doing?

what we do when we make “online”

our technology

Code and information

our need

To manifest the fullness of ourselves and our

organizations online.

Hello, world. It’s me, us, we.

Talk to me. Hear me. See me.

Buy me.

our possibility

“On the one hand information wants to be expensive,

because it’s so valuable. The right information in the

right place just changes your life. On the other hand,

information wants to be free, because the cost of

getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So

you have these two fighting against each other.”

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-definitive-story-of-information-wants-to-be-free-a8d95427641c

Stewart Brand

the digitization

No definitive hard, rendered artifact

the disintegration

Moving away from classically rendered instances to the

quantum delivery of information.

our challenge

The information that wants to be freed (or sold) by us is

embedded in silos and hierarchical, classical structures.

How do we get it out (in pieces)?

the information

and the people

and the digerati don’t jibe

Coders gotta code (reductionists)

Designers gotta design(holists)

so, what can we do about it?

reductionism & holism

Coder “surgeons” must take a less reductionist view

understand the information “body.”

Designers and content makers must understand the logic

of information flow through the system.

The whole is greater AND the sum of its parts

1. cross-train

Learn what the other person does

digital experts are naturals

http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/anyone-can-learn-to-be-a-polymath/

2. Manage the “call”

Organizations can call resources “just in time”, the way

that it calls for pieces of information or parts.

Is that an organizational model?

How many calls is too many calls?

What holds it all together

PerformanceMeasurement

Project

Management

Content

Strategy

Graphic

Design

Information

Architecture

Compliance

Web

Applications

WebKPIs Web

Standards

WebProgram

Management

Functions

WebProduct

Management

Functions

Communi-

cations

Network

& Servers

Web Tools

Library

Services

Social

Business

Process

Mgmt.Managed

Publishing

Web Execution AtomExecution functions oriented to Web performance indicators and Web standards

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the digital call

questions

In a quantum model:

What are “managers”?

What are “project managers”?

What are “analysts”?

Do those concepts even make any sense?

reach me

@lwelchman

[email protected]

http://www.digitalgovernance.com