A couple of posts ago, I tried to describe my experience of how a high performing software team might typically be formed and how the small startup approaches this differently to the larger organisation. The irony is often that the larger organisation, turning at the speed of a super-tanker, is often desperate to capture the same feel, culture and belonging that small startups have, but without sacrificing their rigid 9-level organisation hierarchy, job roles and pay grades - and therein lies a problem.
