{"id":223,"date":"2007-10-20T12:09:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/2007\/10\/20\/agile-anti-pattern-the-inverted-org\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T06:26:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:26:38","slug":"agile-anti-pattern-the-inverted-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/agile-anti-pattern-the-inverted-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile Anti-Pattern: The Inverted Org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pentagonorg.png\" alt='Inverted Org by kjudy'  title='Inverted Org by kjudy'\/>A chain of direct and &#8220;dotted line&#8221; reporting that makes a worker accountable to many managers with no clear boss.<\/p>\n<p>A near total separation of authority and responsibility. The worker is always at fault but overworked and excused. The communication overhead justifies creating more managers. <\/p>\n<p>Related Anti-Pattern: <strong>Value Stream Backwash<\/strong> where analysts specify more projects than workers have capacity to deliver. Again, often solved with more analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chain of direct and &#8220;dotted line&#8221; reporting that makes a worker accountable to many managers with no clear boss. A near total separation of authority and responsibility. The worker is always at fault but overworked and excused. The communication &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/agile-anti-pattern-the-inverted-org\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[19,23,349],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-agile-software-development","tag-anti-pattern","tag-inverted-org-a"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pentagonorg.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}