- objectives
- people know who they work with, and who has authority
- promotes communication and interaction
- allows for independence when needed
- minimising overheads
- clear ownership (responsibility for) artifacts or procedures
- patterns
- organized around part of system
- organized around discipline
- matrixed to be both
- hybrid—mostly around system, with consulting by disciplines
- documenting structure
- org chart
- roles, and who has them
- teaching about the structure
- structure versus size, and reorganization
- simple when small
- formal structure when large
- transition points between structures
- avoiding overload on system/lead people
- making delegation work
- how delegation works
- managing upward: what to do when upper level unresponsive