Metadata
- Author: Themefisher
- Full Title:: Single-Threaded Leaders at Amazon
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Team Topologies, Prioritization Techniques
- URL:: https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/single-threaded-model/
- Finished date:: 2023-07-03
Highlights
Single-threaded leadership is the most critical organizational design concept at Amazon. It has been instrumental in avoiding coupling and slow velocity while increasing the number of initiatives that Amazon can run in parallel. (View Highlight)
for each initiative or business problem, there is a leader whose focus is that initiative and that initiative alone. (View Highlight)
The single-threaded model at Amazon manifests in two variants – Single-Threaded Ownership (STO) and Single-Threaded Leadership (STL (View Highlight)
the leader recognizes that maintaining reporting lines within functional disciplines is helpful (e.g., engineers report to engineers, designers to designers), meaning team members benefit from functional leadership and natural career development (View Highlight)
Some teams, by their nature, make more sense organized functionally, for example, legal, sales, or finance (View Highlight)
Single-threaded organizations structure in ways that allow teams to complete their tasks without blocking others, waiting for others, or aligning decisions with others (View Highlight)