From the course: Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture
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Competence culture
From the course: Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture
Competence culture
- A second, very common culture is the competence culture. This culture is prevalent in software development organizations. A typical competence culture is an organization in which a group of software developers created a tool that became very popular. Then these developers became the defacto managers. Because they were developers, they put all of their effort in to making sure that everyone meets their view of technical excellence. The leadership focus for a competence culture is about setting the standards and creating tasks. They distribute these tasks based on each employee's level of competence. So the management style is very task-driven. The management team tries to be analytical in how they give out these tasks. It's about who will do the best job finishing the work. Organizations with a strong competence culture, have a tendency to be set up like a matrix. In a matrix organization, an employee may have…
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