Workshop: culture follows structure

I was presenting this workshop in Vilnius on May 2017.

The main line of thoughts:

• we use the word "culture" to explain when things don't work (and work)
• when the companies are young (start-ups) culture (beliefs and habits of the founders) shape the emergent structure
• once the companies get stable, the structure starts to sustain itself
• hence in a stable company, structures are shaping the cultures
• Larman's law calls it "culture follows structure"

Then we review the some sample structure decisions that affect culture in different ways:

• component teams
• platforms teams
• lack of team skills
• product management 'divide and concur'