## Metadata - Author: [[gitlab|Gitlab]] - Full Title:: No Matrix Organization - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Data team topologies|Data Team Topologies]], [[Matrix organization|Matrix Organization]], - URL:: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/leadership/no-matrix-organization/ - Finished date:: [[2023-05-11]] ## Highlights > • A functional organization structure mimics the top structure of our organizations (Finance, Sales, Engineering, etc.). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h04k731nbrfgshqrn7h1hke6)) > • We recommend reading [High Output Management](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/leadership#books), and its author coined Grove's law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form. We believe a dual reporting structure is inevitable, we just want to delay it as long as possible. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h04k42hcjw6k59eqgvrqpb9d)) > Having functional managers means that they are rarely spending 100% of their time managing. They always get their hands dirty. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h04k7xdj7q22xgdkpxf69vdz))