Effective cross-team collaboration is crucial for any organization, especially as teams grow in size and complexity. Without a structured approach, communication breakdowns, misaligned goals, and inefficiencies can arise. One way to ensure seamless collaboration is through Ordered Coordination, a pattern in which teams follow a mandated structure dictated by leadership.

In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into the Ordered Coordination pattern, how it works, its benefits and challenges, and best practices for implementation.

With the advent of what I call the second generation of scaling approaches out there, maybe it’s time to dive deeper into the patterns that larger organizations underlie.

I have been cooking this blog entry series for a while now in my head. Time to get some structure to it. This first entry deals with organizations that are oblivious to their need for cross-team coordination practices.