Conference 7.286::digital

1091.0. "How do you work?" by PARZVL::KENNEDY (support small failures) Tue Apr 24 1990 08:53

    My group is in the process of reorganizing and we're looking for some
    new ideas.  The group's work is a combination of SW & IS development
    and consulting, Telecom consulting, and network design.  It's a typical
    matrix setup; most people report to resource managers and we have a
    group of project managers to whom members are also responsible for a
    particular project.  Part of the group is in Europe now and we're
    seeing a lot more projects where we no longer own the whole
    responsibility but are providing resources (both project managers and
    engineers) to collaborative efforts with other groups.
    
    What I'd like to hear about are:
    
    	- Other organizational structures being used within Digital
    (especially anything oriented to distributed work teams)
    	- How you feel about it:  Is the group a better place to work? does
    the structure contribute to your success and the groups? What problems
    have you encountered and how they are resolved.
    
    Thanks for any ideas,
    _Mek

re: .0,

	Sounds like you might want to check out the COMET::FUTURE_ORG_DESIGN
    notesfile as well.  Press KP7 to add this to your notebook...

				  -davo

re .0

I seem to remember one or two seminars in about the last year or so at
Spitbrook about managing cross organizational or cross geographic efforts.
You might try contacting the ZKO library to see if the seminars were taped.

/Peters