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Modern Organization & Ways of Working

Modern Organization & Ways of Working

Organizations in the digital era are transforming how they operate around agility and collaboration.

This section covers 9 topics.

Overview
Introduction to this section and its core frameworks.
Tuckman Stages
A team-development model proposed by Bruce Tuckman (1965), later extended with an Adjourning stage together with Mary Ann Jensen. It describes how a newly formed team…
Dunbar's Number
A theory derived by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar from research correlating primate neocortex size with group size. It holds that humans can maintain stable…
Psychological Safety
A concept introduced by Professor Amy Edmondson (Harvard Business School): the shared belief among team members that they can ask questions, propose ideas, raise…
Dreyfus Model
A theory of skill acquisition developed by brothers Stuart Dreyfus and Hubert Dreyfus, describing how an individual’s cognitive approach shifts from rule-dependent…
Brooks' Law
A law proposed by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month (1975) that explains the paradoxical phenomenon that ‘adding manpower to a late software project makes it…
OKR (Objectives and Key Results)
A performance-management framework that defines an organization’s Objectives and the measurable Key Results that indicate whether those objectives have been achieved.
SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
A framework that scales agile and Lean principles so that dozens or hundreds of people can collaborate to develop complex systems in a large enterprise environment.
Spotify Model
An organizational structure developed at the music-streaming service Spotify — a purpose-oriented matrix organization model that maximizes small-team autonomy while…