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Affinity Diagram | Glossary

Prashant MJ Leave a comment

Definition:

Affinity Diagram is a powerful tool to organise information. A tool that gathers ideas, opinions, issues and organised them into groups or themes based on their natural relationships.

The term affinity diagram was devised by Jiro Kawakita in 1960 and also referred as KJ Method. During brainstroming session, this tool allows large number of ideas generated and sorted to make some sense for review and analysis to bring insights. The process to develop this is to record each ideas on cards or notes, cluster ideas that seems to be related and  label them as it make sense which can be further use for easier management and analysis.

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_diagram
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/affinity-diagrams-learn-how-to-cluster-and-bundle-ideas-and-facts

Organization Chart | Glossary

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Definition

Organizational Charts are created often by Corporate Managers. They are a set of slides that represent the company’s management structure and hierarchy. They act as templetization/ starting point in creating diagrams for the entire organization structure, and the different relationships between the positions and ranks.

As far as hierarchy in an Agile organization is concerned, it is overall less emphasized and communication overheads are minimised by the creation of semi-autonomous, cross-functional and self-organising teams. A single mid-level manager is usually capable to support 10-20 cross-functional teams.

Further Reading

  • “Organizational Design: A Step-by-Step Approach” (book), by Richard M. Burton.