To design an effective software engineering organization that delivers business value, software engineering leaders should begin by understanding the IT operating model (ITOM) targeted by their CIO.

My intention with this blog is always to find new ways of delivering insightful content related to enterprise software, cloud, leadership, and new business models in the enterprise. Recently, I came ...

At some point in their career, everyone has probably seen one of those operational hierarchy charts that define who reports to whom at an organization. Sometimes just called an org chart, it's a ...

These days I find myself in a lot of meetings where folks talk about things like risk management and compliance as well as software security. Those meetings have gotten me thinking about how and why ...

Many small companies use a flat organizational structure, where very few levels of management separate executives from analysts, secretaries and lower-level employees. Flat organizations work best ...