https://www.craigpardey.com/tags/organizational-structure/ Recent content in Organizational Structure on Craig Pardey Hugo en Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigpardey.com/post/2011-12-31-dysfunctions-of-a-corporation/ Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigpardey.com/post/2011-12-31-dysfunctions-of-a-corporation/ <p>Deploying a sufficiently complicated application into a corporate environment involves navigating a sea of paperwork, getting all the appropriate &ldquo;approvals&rdquo; in place, co-ordinating with department managers to get time slots from their staff, and so on.</p> <h3 id="knowledge-silos">Knowledge silos</h3> <p>On Release Day all the right people from the various departments - DBAs, application server administrators, server administrators (both Windows and Unix), desktop support, storage experts - are all sitting in their cubicles at the allotted time waiting to check their checkbox, waiting to mark their task as Done, so they can catch the 5:31pm train home.</p>