#Organizational-Design

Objectives and key results are a great tool for collaborative goal-setting and for aligned on a company-wide direction. Problems start, when teams start to rely on other teams OKRs to be finished in time.

Bonuses shift an employee's interest from the long-term success of the company to the achievement of a short-term goal. By introducing bonuses, you are incentivising the achievement of goals, that should not need any incentives, if they were the right goals to begin with.

Keeping people 100% busy will prevent them from innovating and improving. Therefore, teams should have slack that enables the to learn, adapt and improve.

When moving towards a more continuous software delivery process, focus on evolving the culture instead of just automating the processes.

Walls in your deployment process block value-flow and slow-down feedback cycles. Here is how you can detect and remove them.

Too much alignment will slow you down as the number of stakeholders increases. Creating structures that reduce the alignment needed will help you to scale your organisation.