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Traditional Project Org Charts Are Broken!

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From the perspective of team member who do the real work, especially when management sees their role as mainly facilitation and not giving orders.  Traditional project organization charts focus on the chain of authority and high-level structure, while the real relationships of team structure and those who make them up is an afterthought.

Tell me what you think.  Here is a link to the XMind sample org chart I created for this video.  You can download Xmind for free at xmind.net and use it on Windows, Linux, or Mac.

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Posted on: August 15, 2010 03:13 PM | Permalink

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