Carolyn Solares
My brother calls me a workshrink.
I kind of love messy, matrixed projects.
It’s true.
That doesn’t mean they’re easy. They are not.
I once worked on a major product build where each group of stakeholders had its own methodology they wanted everyone else to follow. Just for fun, I made a slide with all of the frameworks: fourteen separate methodologies.
Fourteen. That’s a lot. And it sounds ridiculous. But it’s not unusual. In fact, it’s pretty normal.
To move anything new forward, you have to combine methodologies. And ideas. And perspectives. Even dumb opinions that turn out to be not-so-dumb.
And tools. (You know what I mean.)
You also need to borrow language to make new things feel familiar across silos.
Because silos are good for only one thing: storing resources.
That was true before the world got weird. It’s more true now.
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