Reinventing Organizational Architecture

Since the dawn of software development, we've struggled with a huge disconnect between the management world and the engineering world – the clash of top-down control, money, and economics, versus art, freedom, working with our friends, and bringing awesome creations to life.

Overcoming these challenges in our industry requires a huge paradigm shift – rather than building organizations as money-making machines with top-down control, our organizations need to become thinking, feeling, interconnected social organisms, where our humanity isn't boiled down to a few numbers.

How do we shift the paradigm of the organization, to bridge these two worlds together? The short answer – with the help of software.

By measuring the friction in a developer's Flow, we have a data-driven feedback loop for personal improvement. What if we measure Flow across the team? Across team dependencies? Across the organization?

What would it take to build an organizational operating system, that uses our past experience and lessons learned as the foundation for an intelligent hive mind, that helps everyone in the organization make better decisions? What if we codified our organizational ideals into the business accounting rules of the software, then sold it as the “the next big thing” in the industry?

At the end of the day, business is a game. If we take responsibility for making up the rules, we can redefine the game we wish to play. In this session, we'll discuss a potential future for our industry, where we design the organizational operating system that runs the world.