Whilst the idea of less middle management can be appealing to some, reducing the layers without fixing the systematic issues becomes quite the double-edged sword: it can offer a layer of protection between those doing the work and those communicating it to others (status updates) it can make things harder to align between the organization as those...
If managers serve as a mechanism to communicate with more senior management, then often a project manager serves as a mechanism to collaborate and align across an organization (albeit from a delivery-focused perspective).
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
There are many approaches to think about in this problem space but starting with a value stream mapping exercise is an effective way to visualize the system and all its constituent parts.
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