{"id":7317,"date":"2018-10-01T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2018-10-01T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:09:37","slug":"larmans-laws-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/larmans-laws-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Larman’s Laws | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Definition :<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>After decades of observation and organizational consulting, here are <\/span>Larman\u2019s Laws of Organizational Behavior<\/i><\/b>.<\/b> These are observations rather than laws to follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Organizations are implicitly optimized to avoid changing the status quo middle- and first-level manager and \u201cspecialist\u201d positions & power structures.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. As a corollary to (1), any change initiative will be reduced to redefining or overloading the new terminology to mean basically the same as status quo.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. As a corollary to (1), any change initiative will be derided as \u201cpurist,\u201d \u201ctheoretical,\u201d \u201crevolutionary,\u201d \u201creligion\u201d and \u201cneeding pragmatic customization for local concerns\u201d \u2014 which deflects from addressing weaknesses and manager\/specialist status quo.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Culture follows structure.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    or, \u201cculture\/behavior\/mindset follows system & organizational design\u201d i.e., if you want to really change culture, you have to start with changing structure, because culture does not really change otherwise, and that\u2019s why deep systems of thought such as <\/span>organizational learning<\/i><\/b> are not very sticky or impactful by themselves, and why systems such as Scrum (that have a strong focus on structural change at the start) tend to more quickly impact culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click here<\/b><\/a> to get such more insights<\/span><\/p>\n

    Further Reading:<\/b><\/p>\n

    Book: <\/b>Large – Scale Scrum by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. <\/span>Click here<\/b><\/a> to get such more insights<\/span><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Definition : \u00a0After decades of observation and organizational consulting, here are Larman\u2019s Laws of Organizational Behavior. These are observations rather than laws to follow. Organizations are implicitly optimized to avoid changing the status quo middle- and first-level manager and \u201cspecialist\u201d positions & power structures. As a corollary to (1), any change initiative will be reduced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[1148,105,1149,1150,1222,1223],"class_list":["post-7317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-alan-salloway","tag-glossary","tag-guy-beaver","tag-james-r-trott","tag-larmans-laws","tag-lean-agile-software-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Larmans-Laws.png?fit=3125%2C1709&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-1U1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7324,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions\/7324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}