The Universal Scalability Law predicts that the maximum throughput that systems - including organizational systems of cooperating people - can achieve is bounded by the amount of contention for shared resources and the amount coherence overhead needed to keep everyone up to date about what's going on.
This idea has since been embraced by the business community, as the need to make decisions quickly is necessary in highly competitive industries.Īnother reason is simply one of throughput and scale. John Boyd, in his study of military fighter pilots, identified that pilots who could pass more quickly through a decision making loop of Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) could win in combat by disrupting their opponents' cycles through this loop. One reason is the need for greater organizational agility.
magazine), and "Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business" ( Harvard Business Review Press). "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams."Įven business publications proclaim the benefits of this empowerment, with titles including "Pushing Down Decision Making in the Workplace" ( The Wall Street Journal), "Why Self-Managed Teams Are the Future of Business" ( Inc.
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